This is fascinating: The current issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology describes a project of the Israeli Air Force, which, not satified with US software, has written its own suite of “apps” for the F35. While much military hardware has long been termed ‘platforms,’ this is a new — platform studies — conception of the word. I have placed the article here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97231643/Israel%E2%80%99s%20F-35%20App%2... [6.4 MB] Best wishes, Dag -- Dag Spicer Senior Curator Computer History Museum Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA 94043-1311 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 Fax: +1 650 810 1055