The Air Force wants to generate a single system that can accommodate mission planning for all three USAF bombers—B-1B, B-2, and B-52. The service has turned to a team led by Boeing, with BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and USAF’s Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, to develop the new system under a $153 million mission planning enterprise contract.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.
