Your article is about a program to: "provide[s] F-35 international partners the capability to review and block messages to prevent sovereign data loss" and by adding this program, it will save our partners millions of dollars because they wont need to do this work themselves (which they knew they needed to do because the ALIS program was part of the plane and disclosed in its specs when they bought it).

I feel like you skimmed this article, and thought it was about something nefarious... so added it to your post because you thought it confirmed what you already thought.