Lockheed Martin is ramping up its Suffolk, Va.-based Center for Innovation by adding net-enabled air combat simulation capability to its net-centric laboratory, said company officials. They said the two simulators built to investigate emerging and future capabilities of the F/A-22 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will provide “unprecedented opportunities” to test new capabilities, technology, and interoperability within the framework of the network battlespace.
The Air Force is shoring up its cyber defenses both on and off base for critical infrastructure such as water and electrical power, and industry experts are calling for more, even specialized, dedicated microgrids offsite to support USAF operations in case of a total blackout caused by cyberattacks.
