Frank Wolfe
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Air Force
Longer Term Contracts Would Ease Production Surge, if Required for F-35, Lockheed Martin Official Says
AURORA, Colo.–If the balloon goes up or if significant new orders for the F-35 materialize near-term, could Lockheed Martin [LMT] ramp up its annual global production of the fighter above […]
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Space
Lead Aviation Platform for MGUE Increment 1 Changed from B-2 to Gray Eagle
AURORA, Colo.–Last fall, U.S. Space Force decided to switch the lead platform for the Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 1 aviation card from the Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth […]
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CMMT Offering by Lockheed Martin to Serve as Subsonic Cruise Missile, Drone or Sensor
AURORA, Colo.—Lockheed Martin [LMT] is developing the Common Multi-Mission Truck System (CMMT–“comet”)–what could serve as a drone, sensor, or a high-subsonic cruise missile that is to cost $150,000 per unit […]
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Air Force
Collins Aerospace: Proposed EPACS System for F-35 Achieves Technology Readiness Level 6
RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Friday that its Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS)–the company’s proposed replacement for the F-35 fighter’s current Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS)–has achieved […]
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Space
Pentagon Says SDA Meeting Minimum Viable Product, But GAO Notes Problems
DoD says that the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) has met the “minimum viable product” (MVP) standard for the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 0 Transport Layer […]
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Air Force
USAF Force Structure to Achieve Air Superiority ‘In Multiple Ways’
The Department of the Air Force’s future force structure will not be one that relies wholly on standoff and will achieve air superiority “in multiple ways,” a service official said […]
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Air Force
Is There a Need for New ICBM Siloes for Sentinel?
Will the U.S. Air Force need to build new ICBM “launch facilities”–siloes–to accommodate the LGM-35A Sentinel? “Looks to me like they’re going to have to,” says Sen. Angus King (I-Me.), […]
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RTX’s Collins Aerospace Gets Award for ACES II for F-15EX
RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Tuesday that it has received an award from Boeing [BA] for Advanced Concept Ejection Seat IIs (ACES IIs) for the U.S. Air Force’s two-seat […]
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Congress
Give Large, Non-Defense U.S. Manufacturers ‘A Shot’ at New Programs, Feinberg Says
Simplifying DoD program requirements as part of an effort to spur more companies to make defense systems is a priority for Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management and […]
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Air Force
General Electric and Pratt & Whitney Report Progress on NGAP
General Electric [GE] and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney have reported progress in their Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) efforts for the U.S. Air Force’s manned Next Generation Air Dominance […]