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F-35 JPO: ALIS Fix Targeted for September 2020

F-35 JPO: ALIS Fix Targeted for September 2020
Norway's first F-35A, called AM-1, is in production at the Lockheed Martin Fort Worth, Texas assembly plant. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin [LMT] expect to field a modernized, upgraded version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) by next fall, service and industry officials told lawmakers Nov. 13. Testifying before a joint session of the House Armed Services Readiness and Tactical Air and Land Subcommittees, new F-35 Program Executive Officer Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick said the Joint Program Office (JPO) and prime contractor Lockheed Martin expect to make “significant progress”…

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