The head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) told lawmakers Tuesday future operations in the Middle East will require a “bigger, better, different” capability for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) than the current MQ-9 Reaper drone. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asked Marine Corps ...
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Raytheon Technologies [RTX] said this week that its Germany-based Raytheon Deutschland GmbH subsidiary has developed a passive, digital electronic intelligence (ELINT) system–the Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS)–that will allow aircraft to escape detection while collecting ...
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and U.S. Air Force leaders have often cited parts obsolescence for the 400 Boeing [BA] Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles as one of the reasons to develop and field the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), and Adm. Charles ...
A panel of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) plans to hear from F-35 program officials on Apr. 22 after DoD missed a planned full-rate production decision last month for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] fighter. “The F-35 joint program office continues to work on a revised acquisition ...
The U.S. Air Force is looking to correct cybersecurity shortfalls in a wing-mounted flight training system used by its older F-16 and F-15 fighters–a remedy that will likely be important for secure data exchange between those aircraft and Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35s, which carry an internal ...
Last month, the U.S. 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) and the 83d Fighter Weapons Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla. set an air-to-air missile range record when a Boeing [BA] F-15C hit a Kratos [KTOS] BQM-167 subscale drone with a Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile ...