Artificial Intelligence has enshittified the F-35 , America ’s long - embattle fifth generation stealth paladin reverse lightning . Produced by Lockheed Martin and coming in three different flavour , the F-35 relies on an AI system call theAutonomic Logistics Information System(ALIS ) to keep the aircraft . The pitch was that ALIS would keep the F-35 in vanish shape tawdry and easy .
The reality has been the opposition . “ ALIS is the backbone of sustainment reinforcement for the F-35 aircraft . squadron depend on it to support day - to - 24-hour interval trajectory operations and maintenance activities … ALIS demo poor usability and impeded , rather than facilitate , efficient maintenance operation , ” a recently revealed government report about theF-35 ’s many failingssaid .
The news report comes from the Office of the Director , Operational Test and Evaluation , a Reagan - epoch Pentagon section thattests American weapon systems . It ’s highly classified but the Project On Government Oversight , a non - profit watchdog group that investigates government outgo , judder it loosewith a Freedom of Information Act Request . The 382 - Sir Frederick Handley Page report is an in - depth bill of indictment of the F-35 from the DoD itself . Greg Williams over at POGO has run through the study in - depth and pulled out themost scandalousand ridiculous bits .
An F-35 during an engine test class on 7 December 2024.© U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jose Miguel T. Tamondong
Lockheed Martin pitched the AI system ALIS in a YouTube video seven days ago . It compare the organisation to a cubicle phone . The idea was that a central host would do as an information and upkeep hub about the jets . The F-35 has a lot of sensors on it and ALIS would treat the datum and tell the sustentation crew what to do with it .
“ The F-35 provides more maintenance data from its sensors than any other hero and ALIS converts that into actionable information to keep F-35s mission ready , ” the video said . “ ALIS brings the preparation , planning , maintenance , and support functions together in one system of rules , saving clock time and money while increase aircraft availability . ”
This is an AI system that run on a server that need a room the “ size of a shipping container ” to function . It has n’t pass away well . According to the DOTE account , ALIS keeps telling financial support staff that things are untimely with single F-35s when everything is fine . “ Efforts to tackle the in high spirits false alarum rate have so far not yield major progress towards fit threshold requirements , ” the report said .
The DoD has been seek to habituate software filter to screen ALIS ’s nonsense , but it does n’t always work . And every time there ’s a new piece of hardware or a software update , everything breaks again . “ While it has been refining these filters ever since , a big number of sham alarms still results in non - actionable sustainment work orders , ” the report said . “ One cause of high false alarm rates is that novel aircraft software loads , or novel versions of hardware , lean to produce new simulated warning gadget , and the PHM filter lag the pace of system update . ”
“ ALIS had wretched usability , required large amounts of maintainer clock time to fill in program tasks , experienced frequent disturbance , did not allow maintainers all desired information and capacity , and did not pose consistent information to maintainers , ” the report enounce . The problem with ALIS were so bad that F-35 upkeep people started to distrust it and develop their own unequaled workarounds when deal out with the AI system .
The problem with ALIS and the F-35 in general have been public for a long time . Four yr ago the Government Accountability Officecalled out ALISfor being a buggy nightmare that maintenance crews hated using and did n’t swear . In response , Lockheed is replacing ALIS with a system called the Operational Data Integrated internet ( ODIN ) . But ODIN has n’t been test yet and is , at first , just about migrate existing ALIS systems into the cloud .
The F-35 has sucked for a long time . It ’s got so many government issue that it took the Pentagon 382 Thomas Nelson Page to elaborate on all of them . ALIS is just one of them . The Marineslost an F-35 in South Carolinalast year . In 2021 , one of the jetsshot itselfand caused $ 2.5 million in damage . Despite these and unnumbered other issues and clank , the Pentagon is set to spend trillions on this matter and make meg more selling them to its allies .
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