Air Force
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman Expects Next B-21 Lots To Be Profitable; Posts Strong Second Quarter
Northrop Grumman [NOC] officials on Thursday reaffirmed that the next round of production contracts for the Air Force’s new stealth bomber will be set at higher prices than the current […]
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InternationalGreece Becomes 19th Foreign Nation to Join F-35 Program
Greece became the 19th foreign nation to join the F-35 program, as the country signed a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) on July 25 to buy 20 of the Lockheed Martin […]
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Business/FinancialRaytheon and Italy’s Avio Sign Solid Rocket Motor Agreement
RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon business and Italy-based Avio said at England’s Farnborough Air Show on July 23 that they have signed a contract to develop military solid rocket motors and bolster […]
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WeaponsMako Missile Offered by Lockheed Martin For Close and Standoff Missions
In development since 2017, Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Mako missile did not enter Phase 2 in the U.S. Air Force Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) competition last year, but the company is […]
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Unmanned SystemsNORAD and U.S. Northern Command Plan C-sUAS Exercise This Fall
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command are to hold the Falcon Peak 2025 (FP 25) counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) experiment this fall in Colorado […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Expects PTMU Contract In Next Few Months
The F-35 Joint Program Office said that Lockheed Martin [LMT] will be responsible for integrating a Power Thermal Management Unit (PTMU) on the company-built fighter to accommodate higher cooling and […]
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SpaceNew NSSL Contracts Bring United Launch Phase 2 Total to $4.5 Billion, SpaceX’s to $4 Billion
As U.S. Space Force looks for new entrants beside Blue Origin for Phase 3 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL), the service on July 19 awarded more than $1.7 billion […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program and Lockheed Martin Say They’ve Begun TR-3 Deliveries
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that deliveries of the first F-35s with the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) began on July 19. TR-3 is to allow […]
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Air ForceAFRL to Hold Software Development Forum on AI-Generated C2 Decisions
The Department of the Air Force is to hold a software development forum in Las Vegas in September to explore future artificial intelligence (AI)-aided decision making under the service’s Advanced […]
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Air ForceB-2 Program Says It’s Fielding Spirit Realm 1 Open Mission Systems Architecture
Officials with the U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 program said that they are moving to field the Spirit Realm 1 (SR 1) open mission systems architecture for […]
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