
Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) contract is backloaded to the point where the company is incentivized to get through the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase as “soon as practical,” Air Force Secretary Deborah James said Monday.The Air Force is rolling out additional details on the highly classified LRSB, or B-21, program, under what James called “strategic ambiguity:” provide transparency to the public while preventing potential adversaries from “connecting the dots.” The Air Force provided a number…