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Air Force Wants Lockheed Martin’s Case For Proposed U-2 Replacement

Pat Host

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

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Air Force Wants Lockheed Martin’s Case For Proposed U-2 Replacement

An Air Force U-2 flies a training mission. Photo: Air Force.

The Air Force’s top intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) officer wants Lockheed Martin [LMT] to make its case for the optionally-manned U-2 replacement the company is developing.“What gap would it fill that is not currently being filled,” Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR Lt. Gen. Robert Otto told reporters Thursday during a Defense Writers Group (DWG) breakfast in Washington. “What would cause us to do the upgrade?”Lockheed Martin in mid-September announced that it was studying a stealthy TR-X…

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