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EGLIN AFB Eglin Air Force Base, which hosts software reprogramming laboratories for the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet that serves the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway and Italy, will be one of the work sites for a $22.5 million software reprogramming contract recently awarded to Lockheed Martin, the Bethesda, Maryland-based primary contractor for the jet.
The F-35 Lightning II United States Reprogramming Laboratory (USRL) at Eglin, which has operated for more than a decade and is staffed with a combination of military, civilian and contractor personnel, has recently come under some criticism from the Department of Defense s office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), which oversees major defense acquisition programs.
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Navy: Constellation Frigate, DDG(X) Programs Mark Start of ‘Surface Ship Renaissance’
Rendering of USS Constellation (FFG-62). Fincantieri Image
The Navy already has models of the Constellation-class frigate and the upcoming DDG(X) destroyer in the water at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock in Maryland and is using a new set of engineering best practices to guide the development of both programs, several Navy officials explained last week.
The Fiscal Year 2020 defense bill ordered the Navy to create a senior technical authority for every ship class, who would be responsible for overseeing a ship design process that would better understand critical systems early in the new ship’s development and create a plan to reduce risk through significant testing and modeling work, Carey Filling, the director of the Surface Ship Design and Systems Engineering directorate at Naval Sea Systems Command, and the senior tech authority for DDG(X) and the frigate, said last week