The Next-Generation Air Dominance family of systems remains highly classified. But some details are beginning to emerge.
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Companies in the defense industry believe they’re better positioned than the military services to help the Defense Department link its data together as part of the joint all-domain command and control concept. During an American Enterprise Institute event, the chief technology officers of Lockheed Martin and ...
Negotiations over the next three-year lot of F-35s have gone on six months longer than expected because the government and Lockheed Martin are having a hard time agreeing on common numbers for inflation and because of COVID-related supply chain costs, company officials said. However, with foreign orders, ...
A recent test flight of the Lockheed Martin HAWC air-breathing hypersonic missile set a record for scramjet propulsion at hypersonic speeds, achieving about 327 seconds of combustion, versus 200 seconds in a 2010 test of the Boeing X-51 Waverider.
The Air Force is boosting its munitions buy in fiscal 2023, marking another modest step in the migration away from direct-attack munitions with priority going to standoff capability, such as the AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range series and its variant, the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile.
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F-35 simulators overcome policy and technical roadblocks to finally communicate effectively with allies' systems.
Lockheed Martin thinks its 17-plus years of demonstrations with unmanned aircraft with various degrees of autonomy will give it a leg up as the Air Force seeks to build new classes of tactical and strategic uncrewed aircraft, company aeronautics vice president Greg Ulmer said in ...
John Clark will be the new head of Lockheed Martin's famed "Skunk Works" Advanced Development Programs unit, the company announced. Clark, who was Skunk Works' head of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and unmanned aircraft programs, is a 23-year veteran of the company. He succeeds Jeff ...
Germany has decided to buy 35 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters and 15 Eurofighter Typhoons to bolster its air forces, after officials there said they had settled on Boeing F/A-18E/F fighters. The new jets will replace Germany’s fleet of Tornado interdiction/strike aircraft. The F-35s would be ...
The Air Force is working to develop a future command-and-control system that will anticipate Airmen's needs and use advanced technology and resilient communications to enable faster decision-making. But none of that will replace the person in the loop, a panel of military and industry specialists said.
