U.S. Air Force Joint Simulation Environment for F-35A, F-22, Other Platforms to Build on F-35 JSE

摘要

The U.S. Air Force intends that its Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) effort begun this yearbuild upon the experience of the F-35 JSE under the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) atPatuxent River Naval Air Station, Md.F-35 JSE testing is part of the fighter's initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E), thesuccessful completion of which is required for a Pentagon decision to authorize F-35 full-rateproduction. The F-35 JPO established JSE for F-35 IOT&E some five years ago after theprogram decided to take over work on the simulation environment from Lockheed Martin[LMT], the F-35 contractor.