Deliveries of Newest F-35 Jet Fighters Resume After Software Upgrade Delays

Published on July 20, 2024

The United States has resumed making deliveries of F-35 jet fighters with an interim upgrade after a months-long pause due to software delays, according to U.S. military officials. The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin, which is the prime contractor for the F-35 Lightning II, jointly announced in a July 19 press release that deliveries of the first Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) configured F-35 aircraft have begun. Lockheed Martin and key suppliers have been upgrading the jets under the TR-3 program, which aims to improve displays and processing power. The government stopped accepting new F-35s from Lockheed Martin last fall because, even though new aircraft were being made with the new TR-3 hardware and software installed, the upgrades still needed more testing. In a public filing in September 2023, Lockheed Martin predicted that the newest version of the F-35 wouldn’t be delivered until at least April 2024 due to software development issues....

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