the 80% number you heard at eglin accurate for the entire fleet today is about half that now. that's not the best part of the story. that's the whole fleet. the best part is the lot is and 7 airplanes we're improving today because of the things in the last two years, they are only seeing a handful of 1s and 2s everyday. and that 40% includes the 80% will have those issues but the newer airplanes better. the general has more information on the new airplanes they have been using at hill air force base. >> those airplanes, ma'am, we have three of them up there. they have not lost a sortie since they delivered them. as we have delivered these newer airplanes, they are performing really well. eglin still has older ones and struggle with the older systems the program office has continued with overtime as the general points out. having said that, there will still be challenges as we still be challenges as we understand a.l.i.c.e. and put our maintainers in the field working in that system through the program office. and i'll tell you one of the things that we did is we had our senior

the 80% number you heard at eglin accurate for the entire fleet today is about half that now. that's not the best part of the story. that's the whole fleet. the best part is the lot is and 7 airplanes we're improving today because of the things in the last two years, they are only seeing a handful of 1s and 2s everyday. and that 40% includes the 80% will have those issues but the newer airplanes better. the general has more information on the new airplanes they have been using at hill air force base. >> those airplanes, ma'am, we have three of them up there. they have not lost a sortie since they delivered them. as we have delivered these newer airpla airplanes, they are performing really well. egg glynn stilin still has olde struggle with the older systems the program office has continued with overtime as the general points out. having said that, there will still be challenges as we understand a.l.i.c.e. and put our maintainers with the system in the program office. one of the things we did, we had our senior logistic leaders from the f-35 bases and folks come together to tal

. >> i invite you, we go to eglin to look at the operation of the plane, we have a number of classified briefings that will give you greater fidelity of what this plane does and what the needs and threats are. i think at that point you'll probably be very satisfied. i appreciate that we continuously ask that question. it's not a question we should ever stop asking. i think as you become familiar with what the operational capabilities of this plane are. that you'll similarly come to the same conclusion that we did in the national defense authorization act. >> we shall see, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen. let me say i'm one of those pilots that would be at the quote-unquote edges of the envelope of what you talked about there. i'd have to gain about 15 pounds in order to be able to fly the f-35 today. so i understand the switcher roo thing you're talking about that the pilots are going to have to move, delaying the chute coming out, is that putting them in increased risk, in a 0-0 situation where obviously every nano second actually counts? >> yeah, actuall

. >> i invite you, we go to eglin to look at the operation of the plane, we have a number of classified briefings that will give you greater fidelity of what this plane does and what the needs and threats are. i think at that point you'll probably be very satisfied. i appreciate that we continuously ask that question. it's not a question we should ever stop asking. i think as you become familiar with what the operational capabilities of this plane are. that you'll similarly come to the same conclusion that we did in the national defense authorization act. >> we shall see, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen. let me say i'm one of those pilots that would be at the quote-unquote edges of the envelope of what you talked about there. i'd have to gain about 15 pounds in order to be able to fly the f-35 today. so i understand the switcher roo thing you're talking about that the pilots are going to have to move, delaying the chute coming out, is that putting them in increased risk, in a 0-0 situation where obviously every nano second actually counts? >> yeah, actuall

as a north floridian, both eglin and tyndall, incredibly important and your service for those that livenorth florida is greatly appreciated. thank you. >> when we had a codel, with when did we go on that? >> in march. >> in march. it was so informative and really impressed with the f-35. there was one area there was consistent concern with the pilots and maintenance, those that maintain the airplanes. for the pie loots and those that maintain, i'm not going to use an acronym. i've learned to not use acronyms but it has a snappy one. it's autonomic logistics information system. a/k/a alice. there were real concerns about false errors reporting. i'm just curious, have we resolved some software issues alice was facing? thank you very much. >> i'll give you the technical answer and i'll let the general give you the warfighter's perspective. since your visit down there, we took a look at that health reporting code problem and done a number of things since then that have improved the situation. the first thing we did was put a new increment and software capability into the alice system we cal