Another Air Force C-5B transport aircraft has entered Lockheed Martin’s facility in Marietta, Ga., to receive new General Electric F138-GE-100 engines and numerous reliability improvements, the company announced Wednesday. This is the fifth C-5B inducted into Marietta since the Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program’s modification line there has been up and running. Prior to that, Lockheed upgraded one C-5A and two C-5Bs during RERP’s development phase. A C-5 fitted with the RERP gear is known as a C-5M Super Galaxy. So far, the Air Force has taken delivery of four C-5Ms. Lockheed C-5 spokesman Chad Gibson told the Daily Report Wednesday that the company expects to deliver the next one in February. All Super Galaxies in the fleet thus far are based at Dover AFB, Del. Overall, the Air Force plans to upgrade 52 C-5s to the M configuration.
The Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $398 million contract to design and build a communications satellite prototype with advanced anti-jam and data processing capabilities. The service announced the contract for the Enhanced Protected Tactical SATCOM-Prototype program, or Enhanced PTS-P, May 15, and said the satellite will launch no sooner than…