That is amazing:<p>&gt; ALIS does not have redundant infrastructure: ALIS’s current design results in all F-35 data produced across the U.S. fleet to be routed to a Central Point of Entry and then to ALIS’s main operating unit with no backup system or redundancy. If either of these fail, it could take the entire F -35 fleet offline.<p>That sounds like a movie plot [Independence Day] (or Battlestar Galactica)!<p>So, the enemy jams comms or shoots down satellites, and a F-35 squadron deployed to a base on the other side of the world can&#x27;t do maintenance?  An aircraft carrier is attacked and its antennas are destroyed, and they can&#x27;t do maintenance?  The enemy breaks into or takes offline the Central Point of Entry over the Internet (oh, but it&#x27;s airgapped, of course...), and the entire F-35 fleet around the world can&#x27;t do maintenance?  (Or can&#x27;t do it at the level required to maintain combat readiness.)<p>Am I misunderstanding something here?