The armed services have been remarkably disciplined about not fiddling with the requirements of the F-35 strike fighter, said Larry Lawson, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, in an interview. “They’ve been pretty solid on holding requirements steady,” said Lawson. “Together” with the services, he said, “we’ve had to flex around some of the demands that have manifested themselves in the actual fielding, for example, of the [information technology] systems,” and that has driven some requirements changes. But, “the government’s done a very good job, I think, of sticking with the fundamentals,” said Lawson. Lockheed Martin has added a new facility and 100 new software engineers to stay on top of the millions of lines of code that the F-35 uses, he told the Daily Report June 19.
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…