USAF awarded Lockheed Martin a $589 million contract to be the weapons systems integrator to “standardize, modernize, sustain, and transform” the Air Force’s 20 worldwide Air and Space Operations Centers. Lockheed must turn the AOC’s 48 discrete systems into one integrated enterprise by August 2010, according to a company press release.
Fresh off its most ambitious test yet of an autonomous cargo plane, the Air Force is preparing to go even bigger by deploying and operating another such aircraft for an entire year.
