By
Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 12:45 PM
Lockheed Martin’s Project Hydra
WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has demonstrated a capability for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to share situational awareness data
in flight via a U-2 spy plane kitted out with the company’s ‘translation’ software, says Dan Markham, Skunk Works director of JADO/BMC2. Lockheed also transmitted data from the F-35 to a ground station using a Navy datalink, TTNT, and then on from there to an Army network, IBCS.
“This is really the first time that all three of those live platforms in the air were connected,” he said in an interview yesterday.