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F-35 Sustainment: Need for Affordable Strategy, Greater Attention to Risks, and Improved Cost Estimates
 http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/rele.....osts.html#
Citat:Specifically, GAO found that:
P. 11: “This $8.8 billion difference represents an increase of more than 79 percent in annual O&S costs for the F-35 as compared with several legacy aircraft” (see fig. 3).
P. 13: “Specifically, DOD officials stated that the targets were determined by arbitrarily lowering CAPE’s estimated F-35 Cost per Flight Hour by 10 percent.”
P. 14: “DOD has stated that ALIS is one of the biggest impediments to the amount of sorties, or flights, that can be generated in support of testing and operations”
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P 16: “DOD receives data on ALIS’s availability from Lockheed Martin….but it does not track any other data to assess the performance or maturity of the system based on user requirements.” In other words, DoD depends on Lockheed to know whether ALIS is working, just as it will depend on Lockheed to operate the aircraft.
This is possibly the most worrying aspect of the F-35 program, as Lockheed also owns the rights to the data that ALIS uses to keep the F-35 flying. In other words, Lockheed literally is the legal proprietor of all aspects of the F-35 program. Once the F-35 has replaced all legacy fighters, Lockheed will legally own all aspects of the United States’ only tactical combat aircraft, and thus most of the airpower of the United States.
Citat:ALIS provides the IT backbone and capabilities to support current and future Warfighters across the U.S. and allied military services.
ALIS integrates a broad range of capabilities including operations, maintenance, prognostics, supply chain, customer support services, training and technical data. A single, secure information environment provides users with up-to-date information on any of these areas using web-enabled applications on a distributed network.
ALIS serves as the information infrastructure for the F-35, transmitting aircraft health and maintenance action information to the appropriate users on a globally-distributed network to technicians worldwide.
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