Lockheed Martin is ramping up its Suffolk, Va.-based Center for Innovation by adding net-enabled air combat simulation capability to its net-centric laboratory, said company officials. They said the two simulators built to investigate emerging and future capabilities of the F/A-22 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will provide “unprecedented opportunities” to test new capabilities, technology, and interoperability within the framework of the network battlespace.
House, Senate Unveil Competing Proposals for 2026 Budget
July 11, 2025
Lawmakers from the House and Senate laid out competing versions of the annual defense policy bill on July 11, with vastly different potential outcomes for some of the Air Force’s most embattled programs.