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Air Force

Lockheed Martin Selects Northrop Grumman For F-16 CAPES Avionics Upgrades

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 19th, 2013

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lockheed Martin [LMT] selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] and its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) for the F-16 Combat Avionics Programmed Extension Suite (CAPES), an avionics modernization program designed to keep the Air Force's F-16 fleet viable in future threat environments. As part of the deal with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman will also upgrade the radars for Taiwan's F-16 fleet. Radar development and production activities for both the United States' and Taiwan's F-16 radar upgrade programs will run in…

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