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Four years after its launch, a project born within the Edwards Air Force Base flight test community has given rise to an application marketplace for the F-35 and F-22.

By Bo Joyner / Published May 25, 2021 Airman Nicole Corp and Senior Airman Gabriela Knudson, command support staff reservists in the 419th Maintenance Group,sharpen their ability-to-survive-to-operate skills during a readiness exercise at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (Senior Airman Anthony Pham) Tech. Sgt. Raymond Chan, 439th Airlift Wing religious affairs Airman and Chaplain (Capt.) Matthew Thompson, 439th Airlift Wing chaplain, prepare to visit Airmen during a Unit Training As...

For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 Lightning II data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a recent ground test at The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment, or FoX, a project that seeks to rapidly integrate advanced software and hardware technologies to maximize the F-35’s lethality and survivability, while creating an agile development test tool and fielded combat multiplier for al...

For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 Lightning II data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a recent ground test at The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment, or FoX, a project that seeks to rapidly integrate advanced software and hardware technologies to maximize the F-35’s lethality and survivability, while creating an agile development test tool and fielded combat multiplier for al...

By Jamal Sutter, 413th Flight Test Group Public Affairs / Published April 16, 2021 An F-35A Lightning II fighter jet assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, takes off during Red Flag 20-1 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, Feb. 5, 2020. A recent ground test conducted at Nellis proved that Air Force personnel could safely and securely take data output from a flight test instrumentation system and convert the F-35’s data to communicate with mobile applications ru...