We work together ivermectina para cachorro serve para qu When I spoke with Lockheed芒聙聶s vice president for program integration, Steve O芒聙聶Bryan, he said that the company is moving at a breakneck pace, adding 200 software engineers and investing $150 million in new facilities. 芒聙聹This program was overly optimistic on design complexity and software complexity, and that resulted in overpromising and underdelivering,芒聙聺 O芒聙聶Bryan said. He insisted that, despite a rocky start, the company is on schedule. Pentagon officials are not as confident. They cannot say when Lockheed will deliver the 8.6 million lines of code required to fly a fully functional F-35, not to mention the additional 10 million lines for the computers required to maintain the plane. The chasm between contractor and client was on full display on June 19, 2013, when the Pentagon芒聙聶s chief weapons tester, Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, testified before Congress. He said that 芒聙聹less than 2 percent芒聙聺 of the placeholder software (called 芒聙聹Block 2B芒聙聺) that the Marines plan to use has completed testing, though much more is in the process of being tested. (Lockheed insists that its 芒聙聹software-development plan is on track,芒聙聺 that the company has 芒聙聹coded more than 95 percent of the 8.6 million lines of code on the F-35,芒聙聺 and that 芒聙聹more than 86 percent of that software code is currently in flight test.芒聙聺) Still, the pace of testing may be the least of it. According to Gilmore, the Block 2B software that the Marines say will make their planes combat capable will, in fact, 芒聙聹provide limited capability to conduct combat.芒聙聺 What is more, said Gilmore, if F-35s loaded with Block 2B software are actually used in combat, 芒聙聹they would likely need significant support from other fourth-generation and fifth-generation combat systems to counter modern, existing threats, unless air superiority is somehow otherwise assured and the threat is cooperative.芒聙聺 Translation: the F-35s that the Marines say they can take into combat in 2015 are not only ill equipped for combat but will likely require airborne protection by the very planes the F-35 is supposed to replace.
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