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Lockheed Martin Studying How To Widely Share F-35 Sensor Data

By Marc Selinger

Monday, March 5th, 2018

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Lockheed Martin Studying How To Widely Share F-35 Sensor Data

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Photo by Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is exploring how the wealth of sensor data collected by its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be distributed to a wide range of air, land and sea forces, a company official said March 5.The F-35’s “amazing suite of information-gathering technology,” including the Multi-Mission Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar and the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS), provides information that “everyone wants” to have, said Jeff Babione, executive vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program. “How do…

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