F-35 Lightning II: The Most Advanced Node in the 21st Century Security

At Lockheed Martin our mission is to deliver seamless and secure integrated deterrence to our customers by
providing advanced systems that serve as intelligent nodes in the networked battlespace and enable rapid and
decisive action.

SATELLITES
SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT F-35 Contributions to
Joint All Domain Operations
SENSING
4TH GEN AIRCRAFT • Extends Precision Targeting Range
• Survive in Highly Contested Space
• Fused Battlespace Awareness

CONNECTIVITY
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• Secure Communications
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• Flexible, Evolving Architecture
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EFFECTS
F-35 LIGHTNING II • Sensor and Shooter
• Provides a comprehensive view of a JADO battlespace
across domains, acting as a system-of-systems data
• Electronic Attack and Protect
producer and consumer in a vast connected network. • Internal and External Carriage
• The most advanced communications and sensor suite of
any fighter in history: including the Active Electronically
Scanned Arrays (AESA) radar, Distributed Aperture
System (DAS), Electro Optical Targeting System (EOTS)
and Helmet Mounted Display System.

AEGIS DDG

GROUND SYSTEMS

2019 2020 2021

2016 2018 F-35’s Distributed Aperture System Project Convergence (Sept. 2020) Project Convergence
(DAS) Tracks Ballistic Missiles (March Orange Flag (Sept. 2020) Talisman Sabre
F-35 / NIFC-CA Live F-35 + HIMARS
2019)
Fire Exercise GatewayONE ABMS Demonstration Flight Test 6, PAC-3 Integration
Orange Flag (June 2019) (Dec 2020) Project Hydra
Orange Flag (Dec. 2019)
Northern Edge

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