Lockheed: Marine Joint Strike Fighter on Final Approach to Initial Operational Capability
10 Jun 2014 Dave Majumdar
"...Meanwhile, the government-company integrated test force has flown five sorties with the Block 3i software–which is the configuration the U.S. Air Force requires for its August 2016 IOC date. Block 3i, with the exception of a new third generation helmet-mounted display, offers the same capability as Block 2B other than the fact it runs on newer, faster computer hardware. The new helmet fixes issues with night vision found on the older version of the hardware.
“We did have some integration issues with the hardware itself,” Martin said.
“Once we ported the software over, we made no software changes to the application software. It ported clean, but we did have some integration issues that are now behind us.”
She said that the hardware and software are performing extremely well thus far.
The Marines do not need the new hardware for their IOC, but eventually their aircraft will be retrofitted with the new processors...."
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