{"id":31924,"date":"2022-11-18T20:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/18\/football-sized-device-could-transform-how-air-force-collects-f-35-data\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:42:48","slug":"football-sized-device-could-transform-how-air-force-collects-f-35-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2022\/11\/18\/football-sized-device-could-transform-how-air-force-collects-f-35-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Football-sized device could transform how Air Force collects F-35 data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 An Air Force test and evaluation squadron hopes a football-sized device mounted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2022\/11\/18\/f-35-costs-have-been-declining-thats-about-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">F-35 fighter\u2032s weapons bay<\/a> might revolutionize how it collects in-flight data on operational fighter jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Combat Command\u2019s 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada earlier this year started adding these devices, dubbed the Quick Reaction Instrumentation Package, or QRIP, to operational F-35s. Before that work began in March, QRIPs had been used in a dozen test F-35s across the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in a Nov. 10 interview with Defense News, squadron commander Lt. Col. Nathan \u201cSheik\u201d Malafa said he hopes to expand the use of these devices to more Air Force fighters \u2014 and perhaps even other aircraft across the fleet \u2014 allowing it to collect and \u201ccrowd-source\u201d flight data much more cheaply than the service used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cQRIP is the end result of the gains of technology that we\u2019re able to use to get everything smaller, more compact, and have a bigger impact,\u201d Malafa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/electronic-warfare\/2022\/08\/15\/air-force-may-put-angry-kitten-in-planes-for-electronic-warfare-edge\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Angry-Kitten.jpeg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force may put Angry Kitten in planes for electronic warfare edge<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Despite the inoffensive name \u2014 a far cry from Reaper or Predator drones or Hellfire missiles \u2014 the electronic warfare system can bare its claws.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force regularly collects flight data from its aircraft, that is then sent back to contractors so the companies can improve its software. At the end of the process, the upgraded software is pushed out to combat aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, Malafa said, test F-35s recorded data with a 2,500-pound pod that took up an entire weapons bay and cost $25 million apiece. Sometimes data took weeks or months to access. That kind of a device was too cumbersome and expensive to even think of integrating into an operational aircraft, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advancements in technology and miniaturization of chips and other components made a much more compact system possible, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3923\" height=\"2610\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg 3923w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-35-refuel.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3923px) 100vw, 3923px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An F-35A Lightning II assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., prepares to be refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 161st Air Refueling Wing during a local sortie, Sept. 16, 2022. (Staff Sgt. James Richardson Jr.\/Air National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airmen in the 59th began developing the idea for a more compact data collection tool about three years ago. The data being collected by test fighters was inadequate and not coming in fast enough, he said, prompting the squadron to brainstorm ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a bar napkin kind of idea,\u201d Malafa said. \u201cWhat if we reduce the size? Because the program was not delivering the flight test instrumentation requirements in time for what we needed to do when the F-35s went from Block 2 to Block 3. So, necessity bore that innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That idea soon became QRIP, an 8-pound device roughly the size of a football that is bolted inside the F-35\u2032s weapons bay without taking up all the room or requiring any panels to be removed. It can record almost a terabyte of data per flight. The price tag for a single Curtiss-Wright Corporation-made QRIP: $230,000, a fraction of the old system\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The QRIP is wired to the F-35\u2032s computers to collect vehicle system and mission system data \u2014 everything from altitude, power levels, performance and any potential malfunctions that engineers would have to sift through after a flight to figure out what problems may need to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The squadron began installing QRIPs on test F-35s a little more than two years ago, Malafa said, and then began considering the possibility of adding them to operational fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 59th has so far added QRIP to 19 operational Air Force F-35As, beginning in March 2022, and more are on the way. These F-35s are in a variety of locations, though Malafa would not specify where, and some have taken part in exercises outside of the continental U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having the QRIP loaded on operational F-35s flying real-world missions will allow the Air Force to collect a greater variety of flight data that it wouldn\u2019t get in a test environment, Malafa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re flying in Alaska where there\u2019s mountains, [and in other] different types on environments and collecting that kind of data,\u201d Malafa said of the operational F-35s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, QRIP is not on any other aircraft but Malafa said the squadron wants to put it on F-22s next \u2014 first test Raptors next year, and eventually moving to operational F-22s. An F-22-mounted QRIP is \u201cwell down the development pipeline\u201d and being tested, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next step will be working with F-22 maker Lockheed Martin to figure out the best way to integrate QRIP into the F-22, although Malafa couldn\u2019t say when it might be integrated into the F-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The squadron is also working on a QRIP for F-16s and A-10s, he said. F-15s already collect enough data, he said, but might need a new system to manage the information. And Malafa said his squadron is looking at how to get these devices into MQ-9 Reapers and bombers such as the B-52 Stratofortress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as the Air Force moves forward with its B-21 Raider, Next Generation Air Dominance family of fighter systems and drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft, Malafa said it will be important for the Air Force to \u201cbake in\u201d this kind of data collection capability from the start. That way, the service won\u2019t have to go back years later and retrofit them with technology like QRIP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flight data QRIP collects will help improve the mission data files the F-35 uses to understand its environment and know what threats to search for, Malafa said. It will also allow the Air Force to find and fix bugs in the software, collect information that intelligence offices could use, and help maintainers find or predict where the F-35 needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if something goes wrong with a fighter down the line, the pool of data collected by QRIP over the years could help the Air Force go back and try to find early warning signs of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malafa said the Air Force wants to work with companies that provide artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to develop tool sets that could let it better use the data collected by QRIP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the things we\u2019re looking at doing [with QRIP-collected data] is that predictive maintenance,\u201d Malafa said. \u201cIf you can get ahead of the ballgame on that, that\u2019s a game-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The device, called a QRIP, is bolted inside an F-35&#8217;s weapons bay. 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