USAF Looks to Remedy Cybersecurity Shortfalls in Flight Training System for Fighters

摘要

The U.S. Air Force is looking to correct cybersecurity shortfalls in a wing-mounted flight trainingsystem used by its older F-16 and F-15 fighters--a remedy that will likely be important forsecure data exchange between those aircraft and Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35s, which carryan internal version of the system.This month, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB,Ohio released a pre-solicitation for a System Security Upgrade (SSU) for Cubic Corp.'s [CUB]P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) instrumentation pods.