Congress wants to ensure that should the Air Force decide it does need to purchase dedicated aeromedical evacuation aircraft, service leaders will give due consideration to placing those aircraft “at locations that have previous experience” with the AE job.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.