I hope that the Pentagon makes the best of this situation and uses the Marine IOC as a realistic service test, letting the (inevitable and not unique) warts and tics appear and feeding that experience back into IOT&E for Block 3F. Otherwise the risk is that it becomes a marketing exercise, operated with a failure-averse mindset.
That's important, because the Block 2B IOC is not an enduring capability - there are only enough aircraft with the Tech Refresh 1 processor to support one squadron and they will eventually be modernized to 3F standard - and it has certainly had an impact on the 3F schedule as well as costing a lot of money. The program needs to get value out of it.