New Software Pipeline Seeks To Smooth Agile Path For F-35

Lockheed Fort Worth facility
A rash of software bugs showing up on test and operational F-35s has prompted a new approach to testing and monitoring coding activity inside Lockheed’s Fort Worth factory.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A fully equipped software development pipeline has been running for about nine months inside Plant 4, the nearly mile-long Fort Worth facility dedicated to assembling the Lockheed Martin F-35. In contrast to the mile-long stretch of the F-35 final assembly line elsewhere in Plant 4, the facilities...

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