The new F-22 Maintenance Training Facility at Sheppard AFB, Tex. is now officially open, reports the Times Record News. As we reported earlier, the new facility will take its first trainee beginning in January. The state-of-the-art center includes F-22 cockpit and forward fuselage and seat and canopy maintenance training simulators designed by the DME Corp.
Lockheed Martin projects more than a billion dollars of losses on a classified program, but company officials said April 23 they are confident it will turn profitable by 2028 and become a "franchise" system in the U.S. military.