F-35 will be getting Auto GCAS by next year

The Pentagon has brought forward a plan to install the automatic ground collision avoidance software on the F-35.

U.S. Marine Corps F-35 Lightning II aircraft assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola fly over the northwest coast of Florida May 15, 2013 130515-F-BU402-206
By MSgt Donald Allen [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The original schedule will see the technology being integrated in the Block 4 Follow-on Modernization phase.