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

Frank Wolfe

Friday, April 21st, 2023

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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…

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