
Unit costs for the U.S. Air Force B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) have increased to 15 percent over the baseline--a status that represents a significant Nunn-McCurdy breach. The Air Force has said that RMP for the 76 B-52Hs is to include a new, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar based on RTX's [RTX] APG-79; a new, wide-band radome by L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on the aircraft’s nose; two L3Harris 8 x 20 inch high definition displays for the radar navigator and…