By Jen DiMascio The nation's two largest defense contractors--Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT]--are expected to announce today that they will join forces in an effort to make the Air Force's next generation of bomber aircraft, according to informed sources. Senior Air Force officials have said the service can field a new bomber by 2018--although it will have to begin as a basic model that will receive subsequent upgrades. "It won't be the Cadillac version because this is not required,"…
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