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Lockheed Martin Likely to Support LRSO With Sensors, Nuclear Certification

Lockheed Martin Likely to Support LRSO With Sensors, Nuclear Certification
An unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie Sept. 22, 2014. Conducted by Airmen from the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., the launch was part of an end-to-end operational evaluation of 8th Air Force and Task Force 204’s ability to pull an ALCM from storage, load it aboard an aircraft, execute a simulated combat mission tasking and successfully deliver the weapon from the aircraft to its final target. (File photo by Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson)

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are developing a plan to fit the company into the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) program moving forward, even as the service has selected Raytheon’s [RTX] design for the actual cruise missile. An April 17 notice revealed that the Air Force plans to focus on Raytheon’s LRSO design after completing preliminary design reviews (Defense Daily, April 20). Both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon had been developing designs under Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) phase…

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