1. John Gruetzmacher, Lockheed Martin
Joint Strike Fighter “Interoperable by Design” National Defense Industrial Association System Engineering Conference San Diego, CA 22 October 2003
John Gruetzmacher, Lockheed Martin

2. JSF Program Focus Low Flyaway Cost
Affordability
Low Flyaway Cost
Significantly Reduced Life Cycle Costs
Lethality
Adverse Weather Accurate Weapons Delivery
Weapons Flexibility
Survivability
Signature
Performance, SA, Countermeasures
Supportability
Service Basing Requirements
LO Maintainability
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

3. JSF International Participation
Norway
The Netherlands
Canada
Denmark
U.K.
United
States
Turkey
Italy
Australia
Lockheed Martin currently contracted to meet US and UK requirements
and understand other partner country requirements

4. Common Aircraft Configurations
F-35A
F-35B
F-35C
CTOL
(USAF)
STOVL
(USMC and UK) CV
(USN)

5. JSF Warfighter Capabilities
Cooperative Ops
Full Off-Board Interoperability
Fused, Coherent Common Operational Picture
Intelligent Tactical Decision Aids
Presented to the Pilot in an Advanced Cockpit
Multi-Function AESA
UHR SAR
Autonomous Location and ID
Precision Attack
Versatile Weapons Capability
Long Range IRST
Passive Precision Emitter Location and Targeting
All Around Situation Awareness
Unprecedented Lethality and Survivability

6. The Autonomic Logistics Concept
Reduced Footprint
Smart, Reliable Aircraft
Integrated Support Infrastructure
Support Equipment
Partnering with Government and Industry for Best Value
Integrated Electronic Training of Pilots and Maintainers
A Global Revolution In Fighter Sustainment

7. JSF Development ScheduleCY
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013 #1 #2 #3
STOVL IOC
CTOL IOC
CV IOC
ASRR
PDR
CDR
STOVL
UK IOC
CTOL CV
First
Flights
System Development and Demonstration
Flight
Test
OT&E
LRIP Aircraft
(6 CTOL/4 STOVL)
Contract
Award
LRIP Aircraft
(14 CTOL/8 STOVL)
LRIP Aircraft
(20/20 Plus /9 CV/5 U.K.)
LRIP Aircraft
(30/32/20/9)
14 Flight Test Aircraft
8 Test Articles
(44/32/32/12)
LRIP Aircraft
(72/36/48/12)
LRIP Aircraft

8. JSF Interoperability Transformation
A cornerstone for improved US/UK/coalition interoperability and network centric operations
Enables New Approaches To Strike Operations
Common and interoperable avionics systems
3000 aircraft built to exact same IO standards
6000 including International Partners
Unsurpassed strike fighter communications capability (IFDL, Link-16, VMF, SATCOM)
Enabled By

9. Evolvable Airborne Architecture
JRE (J or K Series Messages)
Threat Broadcasts
Outside World
Combat Radio Networks
Tactical Data Links (J Series Messages)
JRE
Mission Systems
SATCOM
SATCOM
Link 16
VMF
Programmable
PHM
Software
CNI Suite
Pilot Aids/Fusion
Sensor Management
Attack Aids
Jeopardy Assessors
Route Planners
System Attributes • Open Architecture • COTS Implementation • Tech Refresh
Pilot

10. Emerging External Interoperability Issues
JSF Interoperability promise not fully realized if external OPFACs not upgraded to 2010 standards
Requires cross DoD/MoD effort to achieve best interoperability outcome at JSF IOC and beyond
JSF working to further identify OPFAC interoperability disconnects
Link-16 capacity may be inadequate to support large number of JSF’s in the post 2010 operational environment
Initial MITRE Corp assessment highlighted potential shortfall

11. Emerging External Interoperability Issues (cont)
Emerging standards may not be available in time to meet JSF design “cut offs”. Examples are:
Some Joint Tactical Radio System Waveforms
Threat Broadcast Systems (IBS vs. TDDS/TIBS)
Unambiguous/Timely Variable Message Format Standard

12. JSF - Designed For Interoperability
JSF - A Key Node in the System of Systems
Flight Ops
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JSF - Designed For Interoperability

13. Toward Greater Combat Effectiveness
Improved Flight Characteristics
Improved Planning,
Tasking, & ISR
Increased Reliability of
On-Board Systems
Counter Threat Systems
Information Integration
All Wx, Day/Night
Improved Logistics
Info Systems
Improved R&M/PHM
JIT Transport
Mechanized/Stovepiped
Manual Operations