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F-35 Program Seeks Innovations to Improve Aircraft Cybersecurity

F-35 Program Seeks Innovations to Improve Aircraft Cybersecurity
Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to Hill AFB, Utah, and two Dassault Rafales assigned to Saint-Dizier-Robinson Air Base, France, break formation during flight May 18th last year over France. The flight was a part of exercise Atlantic Trident 21, a joint, multinational exercise among the U.S., France and the United Kingdom. Atlantic Trident aims to enhance fourth and fifth-generation integration and combat readinesss by conducting complex air operations in a contested environment. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The F-35 Joint Program Office is looking to industry for ideas to improve the cybersecurity of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter and associated ground systems under a new JPO Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense Challenge. The JPO cyber team "is seeking innovative solutions to inform and integrate cyber event detection and response capabilities, meant for Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and Platform Information Technology (PIT) systems, including but not limited to communication busses such as 1394, 1553, TCP/IP," according to a…

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