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Weapon System Approach To F-35′s ALIS Starting To Pay Off, Bogdan Says

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, February 28th, 2014

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The Defense Department’s new weapon system-like approach to the F-35’s Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS) is starting to pay dividends, according to the program’s executive officer. F-35 PEO Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan said Fed. 25 that ALIS, which is the aircraft’s information technology backbone, was originally treated as “support equipment” to the F-35, but then the program realized ALIS was “way more important and way more complicated” than that. As part of a cultural change, the F-35 joint…

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