The Air Force awarded C-130J contractor Lockheed Martin a $68 million contract to deliver three weapon systems trainers—two for the Air Force and one for the Marine Corps. Lockheed says the actual design and manufacture of the WSTs will be done by the Canadian-based modeling and simulation technology company, CAE.
The Air Force wants to pump more than $12 billion over the next five years into its new affordable long-range missiles program and recently asked industry to push the flights of some of those munitions beyond 1,200 miles.