Aircraft health and maintenance action information is sent by the ALIS software in each aircraft out to the entire distributed logistical support network. ALIS is supposed to intelligently drive the flow of maintenance parts, guide support crews in scheduling maintenance, and ensure the right parts get stuck in the right places. One of the major sources of problems with the F-35 program is the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS)-the software that drives maintenance and logistics for each F-35 aircraft. The report does not include data from the current round of combat testing, so even more problems may soon be added to the list. "Although the program office is working to fix deficiencies," Behler wrote in the report viewed by Bloomberg, "new discoveries are still being made, resulting in only a minor decrease in the overall number." And "many significant" issues remain to be addressed, he noted. And even as the long list of less critical problems is addressed, new ones keep popping up. There are a total of 13 Category 1 "must fix" issues still unresolved with the F-35 that stand between the program and final production. For starters, the Air Force version of the F-35 can't hit what it shoots its gun at. In fact, the only real good news is that there are no new major flaws in the $428 billion aircraft program reported by Behler's team.īut the bad is still bad. And based on Bloomberg Government's Tony Capaccio's early access to the new report, we know much of that bad news is still bad news. The latest report on the progress of the US Defense Department's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is due out soon from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's director for operational test and evaluation (DOT&E), Robert Behler.
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