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vIITSEC 2020: Lockheed to expand F-35 DMO links

2nd December 2020 - 14:42 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Holsworthy

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During a press briefing at this year’s vIITSEC, Lockheed Martin’s global sustainment senior programme integrator Todd Canterbury said that the company was working to integrate the F-35 with additional elements of the USAF’s Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) network in 2021.

The DMO provides the network infrastructure to allow Distributed Mission Training (DMT) to take place and links a variety of different simulators such as the F-15, F-16, F-22 and E-3.

Lockheed Martin, alongside the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and the USAF, completed final DMT tests for the aircraft last July at Nellis AFB and now looks to expand this

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