The Department of Defense announced Friday that Raytheon has been awarded a $1 billion foreign military sales contract to provide an early warning radar system for Qatar. The contract is a result of a sole-source acquisition and will be managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom AFB, Mass. The work will be performed at Woburn, Mass., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2021.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…