Joint Strike Fighter Euronet

The JSF EuroNet is a unique service born out of the joint vision of Lockheed Martin and its partners to provide a basis for an improved connectivity capability on the JSF and other programmes.

It has been running successfully for three years now. It has proven to be highly reliable and has delivered benefits that exceed the original projections. This is important as one of the driving principles for the EuroNet service was the concept that the operating overheads for the Hub were shared across it’s users and that the benefits derived through economies of scale, increased bargaining power with the Telecomms Service providers etc were passed back to the participants.

As it is, one of our customers on the service have managed to halve their costs whilst tripling their bandwidth and getting better support into the bargain. Now we see continued growth in the customer base with customers increasing their existing bandwidth, new customers gaining their initial connectivity and we now have the prospect of seeing circuits opened up shortly that will be accredited to handle classified material. Projections are that this service will eventually support in excess of 30 customers/ partners on the JSF and other Lockheed Martin programmes.

JSF EuroNet, a capability that will continue to grow and exceed it’s design expectations in supporting JSF and providing a “level playing field” for partners of all sizes to be able to collaborate and participate in the programme.

Links:

• JSF
• JSF Program Office

Contact:

Chris Warren 023 9244 3710, e-mail: chris.warren@lmco.com