by yborg on 1/21/2020, 8:37:55 AM
by euler_angles on 1/21/2020, 2:16:10 PM
ALIS. Jesus. What a disaster it was. We had to use it in flight testing and our instantiation was so poor that you literally couldn't use it to order a part. You had to send an email to order parts.
And for the engineering tasks I was doing, there were no good ways to categorize the task, so I eventually gave up and called all the data loads I was doing "LUBRICATION/OTHER". Hey, making the data flow better is a kind of lubrication, right?
I would say "maybe it's gotten better since I used it years ago" but from this article it looks like the answer is a solid "No".
by nabla9 on 1/21/2020, 8:57:43 AM
This was not a fluke.
The failure rate of large scale IT projects is the huge. For large, complex projects the statistics is
2% success
42% challenged
56% failed
The new system has probably similar 50% change for success. I think giving the new project to the same contractor may improve the changes. Hhey have hopefully learned something.
by pixelface on 1/21/2020, 8:12:09 AM
"ODIN will be based in the cloud and designed to deliver data in near real time on aircraft and system performance under heightened cyber security provisions, Lord said. "
heart warming to see us draw ever closer to the cyberpunk dystopia of my childhood dreams.
by apcherry on 1/21/2020, 1:51:20 PM
I'd loved to see this bumped up so that it appears on the front page right next to the link on "Why do we fall into the rewrite trap?" for a nice little juxtaposition. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106367
by StLCylone on 1/21/2020, 2:58:15 PM
Lets just call it what it is, welfare for the educated. Its a money giveaway to support defense workers.
by svth on 1/21/2020, 3:17:48 PM
Obligatory War Nerd post:
https://pando.com/2015/09/24/war-nerd-why-f-35-albanian-mush...
by p_l on 1/21/2020, 8:09:22 AM
Still done by the same incompetents (but with good sales team in parent company).
by bboreham on 1/21/2020, 7:13:24 PM
“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)
The functioning or non-functioning of the logistics system for the F-35 is largely irrelevant, as just demonstrated Lockheed is paid whether it works or not; and non-functioning is much safer for the program, as non-flying F-35s are safe from combat and accidents. In fact, low availability just provides an excuse for the Air Force to demand additional budget for aircraft. This isn't so much a combat system as a corporate welfare program.
In practice, the US has already demonstrated that its primary airpower projection is via unmanned systems, the manned combat aircraft is the mounted cavalry c. 1920.