{"id":176999,"date":"2020-01-25T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/25\/same-sh-different-name\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T00:50:00","slug":"same-sh-different-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/25\/same-sh-different-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Sh%$ Different Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One of the selling points of the F-35 Lightning II is its prognostics based maintenance system.<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, this has turned into a completely non-functional sh%$ show.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/01\/17\/f35_alis_software_system_replaced_odin\/\">Lockheed and the Pentagon have given the system a new name, and started back at square one on the software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Albert Einstein, &#8220;The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The US military is dumping its Autonomous Logistics Information System (ALIS) in favour of ODIN as it tries to break with the complex past of its ailing F-35 fighter jet maintenance IT suite. <\/p>\n<p>ALIS is the software suite that comes bundled with the F-35 fighter jet. A Lockheed Martin product, ALIS is intended to be a proactive maintenance suite: it tracks the health of each jet, tells supply systems when to order parts and tells maintainers what needs doing and when. <\/p>\n<p>At least, that was the theory. Instead the all-encompassing suite has become so unwieldy and problem-ridden that the US armed forces are ditching it in favour of a new thing called ODIN, or Operational Data Integrated Network. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Far from meeting its originally envisioned role, ALIS was so bad that the US Government Accountability Office, an auditor similar to Britain&#8217;s National Audit Office, reckoned one US Air Force unit wasted 45,000 working hours per year working around ALIS&#8217;s shortcomings. In 2018, US Marine Corps station Beaufort was suffering spare part shortages of up to two years, thanks to ALIS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/06\/01\/f35_alis_woes_usmc_beaufort\/\">making a hash of its spare part systems<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you have the same folks who made a complete dogs breakfast out of maintaining the F-35 are going to start from square one, with the same people, and make it all better.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the selling points of the F-35 Lightning II is its prognostics based maintenance system. Unfortunately, this has turned into a completely non-functional sh%$ show. In response, Lockheed and the Pentagon have given the system a new name, and started back at square one on the software. To quote Albert Einstein, &#8220;The definition of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,381,588,533,382],"class_list":["post-176999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-fail","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}