
The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has announced that it plans to accelerate the integration of the new Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) into the fighter jet, citing the software’s ability to save the lives of pilots.The JPO said late Jan. 30 that it intends to add Auto-GCAS to the F-35 Lightning II fleet by 2019, five years earlier than previously planned. The software, which the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), NASA and Lockheed Martin [LMT]…