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Air Force

Lockheed Martin To Develop Replacement Prototype for Air Force’s Airborne Launch Control System

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

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Lockheed Martin To Develop Replacement Prototype for Air Force’s Airborne Launch Control System

The Air Force is moving forward with the effort to modernize its Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) for ICBMs with an $81 million deal to Lockheed Martin [LMT] to develop a replacement system prototype, the company said Wednesday.Lockheed Martin is tasked with designing a prototype for the system that will provide command and control capabilities for the Air Force’s future Ground Based Strategic Deterrent missile system scheduled to be fielded in the late 2020s. The program is known as ALCS-Replacement."ALCS-R…

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