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F-35 Joint Program Office Expects to Receive Analysis on Feasibility of Joint Simulation Environment

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

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F-35 Joint Program Office Expects to Receive Analysis on Feasibility of Joint Simulation Environment

A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, flies during RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 20-3 at Eielson AFB,, Alaska on Aug. 7, 2020. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Joint Program Office (JPO) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter at Patuxent River, Md. expects to receive an analysis by Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the next several weeks on whether the program's Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) is feasible. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, the program executive officer for the F-35 JPO, told an Apr. 22 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) Tactical Air and Land…

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