F-22, Joint Strike Fighter Trainers Redefine 'Point-and-Click' Warfare.
National Defense › Vol. 85 Nbr. 564, November 2000
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F-22, Joint Strike Fighter Trainers Redefine 'Point-and-Click' Warfare.
When it comes to tactical flight simulators and trainers, two of the U.S. Defense Department's multibillion-dollar fighter aircraft programs mark a drastic departure from many of the conventional ways of doing business.
The Air Force F-22 Raptor and the multiservice Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) have introduced novel approaches to building training capabilities for current and future pilots, industry experts said. Not only are these new systems more technologically advanced, but they also benefit from management techniques that emphasize, for example, close industry-government cooperation. The F-22 is built by Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, in Marietta, Ga. The Boeing Company, in Seattle, is a major subcontractor on the program. Both companies, however, are pitched against each other in a competition for the JSF. The selection of the winner is scheduled for 2001. The approaches followed by these two programs in developing flight training technology combine high-tech gadgetry with new ways of managing weapon systems, according to officials from the two firms and independent experts interviewed for this story. "I've never seen a program [F-22...See the full content of this document
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