
The U.S. Air Force's fiscal 2025 budget contains $375 million--$77 million more than last year's request--for the $8.8 billion Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) program. Last September, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that the Air Force had awarded the company a $705 million contract for SiAW development, integration, and rapid prototyping in advance of "rapid fielding" (Defense Daily, Sept. 25, 2023). While the U.S. Air Force has looked upon SiAW as an outgrowth of Northrop Grumman’s AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended…