The Space Force’s “go fast acquisition” of three new missile warning satellites passed a system-level critical design review Oct. 28 that judged how the satellites and associated ground systems will work together and how the new equipment will work with existing missile warning systems. The ...
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Red air operations and training are priorities for USAF in the coming decade.
The Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) has been in development at Lockheed Martin since at least 2019, when the company received a contract for integration, testing, and demonstration of such a weapon on the AC-130J aircraft.
A new report by the Defense Department’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation found that Texas and Virginia were America’s top recipients of defense spending in fiscal 2020 at $83 billion and $64.3 billion, respectively. Among the states where the Air Force received the highest ...
Lockheed Martin plans to enter the Advanced Tactical Trainer fray to supply the Air Force with a new jet to bridge undergraduate flight instruction and fighter training units, but the company declined to say whether it will offer a T-50A derivative, a different non-developmental airplane, ...
As the military’s COVID-19 vaccination deadlines close in, federal contractors such as Boeing, L3Harris, and others are also demanding employees get vaccinated, driven by President Biden's executive order issued Sept. 9. About 63 percent of working-age Americans were vaccinated as of Oct. 7, according to ...
The Air Force’s just-announced program to buy a new jet trainer is meant to support the “Reforge” overhaul of the fighter training enterprise put forward by Air Combat Command last year, but the program is in its earliest stage, and no timing for acquiring the ...
The Air Force is seeking “at least 100” and as many as 400 Advanced Tactical Trainer aircraft both to train fighter pilots and to serve as adversary aircraft in training, a role similar to that now performed by the AT-38. While the Air Force seems ...
Lockheed Martin has opened a new factory in Alabama for production of hypersonic missiles for the Air Force, Army, and Navy. The plant will build the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, but that missile has yet to make a successful test flight. Getting the missile ...
Deeper partnerships outside the traditional defense industrial base are needed to deliver cutting-edge technology to the warfighter, but relationships with academia can be challenging, according to panelists at AFA’s Air, Space, & Cyber Conference. Both the military services and the traditional defense contractors that serve ...
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have agreed that F-35 production will peak at 156 jets per year in 2023 and remain at that level "for the foreseeable future." The "re-baselining" of the program is meant to ensure predictability and stability in production.
Discussions within the Space Force and between it and industry partners about new architectures for satellite constellations are sometimes hampered by the extraordinarily high levels of classification involved, a Lockheed Martin executive told AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Information about the vulnerabilities of military ...
