Lockheed F-35's Balky Sensor Software Needing Fewer Reboots
- Radar and sensor displays were shutting down every four hours
- McCain calls the F-35's past delays `a scandal and a tragedy'
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Software that runs radar screens and sensor displays on Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 fighter is shutting down less frequently, requiring fewer reboots, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer and top tester.
The unstable software was causing the systems to shut down every four hours, forcing the pilot to reboot the systems in flight, but a new version is operating 10 hours between such “stability problems,” Undersecretary for Acquisition Frank Kendall and the F-35’s program manager said in prepared testimony for a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.