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Air Force Issues Preliminary JSTARS Recapitalization Contracts

Pat Host

Monday, August 10th, 2015

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Air Force Issues Preliminary JSTARS Recapitalization Contracts

An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force on Friday awarded pre-engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contracts to Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Boeing [BA] for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) recapitalization program.All three contracts are for helping assess maturity of subsystem technology, reduce weapon system integration risk and lower life cycle cost by virtue of design, according to a Defense Department statement. Work from all three contractors is expected to complete by July 31, 2016. The contracts were competitively…

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