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USAF Budgets $375 Million for SiAW in Fiscal 2025

USAF Budgets $375 Million for SiAW in Fiscal 2025
A mechanic from the 421st Fighter Generation Squadron does an engine run to prepare an F-35A Lighting II at Edwards AFB, Calif. for sorties during the Bamboo Eagle 24-1 exercise last month (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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…

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