:

Air Force

Start of F-35 ODIN Software Fielding to Squadrons Delayed Until 2025

Frank Wolfe

Friday, April 21st, 2023

SHARE:

Start of F-35 ODIN Software Fielding to Squadrons Delayed Until 2025

The 354th Fighter Wing conducted a 75-fighter jet formation at Eielson AFB, Alaska on Aug. 12 last year to mark the U.S. Air Force’s 75th anniversary (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While the U.S. Air Force's fiscal 2023 and 2024 budget requests said that fielding of Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) software for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter would begin in the third quarter of this year and end in the first quarter of 2025, first fielding of the software is now slated for 2025. The F-35 program wants to field ODIN–a cloud-based, government-owned logistics software system--to replace the more than two decade-old Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS). Lockheed Martin…

Space

Space Force Eyes Nearly $1.5 Billion for Space Data Network Backbone in Future Reconciliation Bill

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to request nearly $1.5 billion for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone in a future fiscal 2027 reconciliation bill. Last week, Space Force’s Space […]

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]

HASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense policy draft bill aims to restrict the Navy’s use of unmanned surface vessels (USV) until it decides on key factors […]

Congress

Gaps In Army’s Tactical Counter-Drone Capabilities Remain Concern Of HASC

A draft defense policy bill released this week says the Army is fielding counter-drone capabilities for defense of fixed sites and maneuver forces but suggests that troops at the lowest […]