The Air Force on Oct. 27 awarded the contract for its next generation stealth bomber to Northrop Grumman Corp., beginning a several-year, multi-billion process to reshape the service’s nuclear force. The long-awaited and heavily anticipated announcement was originally expected in...
The Air Force announced Tuesday that Northrop Grumman won the Long-Range Strike Bomber contract, but released precious little new information and offered no details about the actual amount of the contract awarded, how close the contest was with the Boeing/Lockheed...
The Air Force released a chart showing that the Long-Range Strike Bomber’s development costs, in apples-to-apples, inflation-adjusted dollars, comes in between the amounts spent on the B-1A/B ($19.3 billion) and B-2 ($37.2 billion) bomber programs. Some $1.9 billion has been...
The Air Force declined to say what engines will power its LRS-B—and in fact declined even to say what the nomenclature for the new airplane will be, such as B-3 or B-4. “We won’t go into any details of components...
Boeing and Lockheed Martin will have “discussions with our customer” before deciding to protest the award of the Long-Range Strike Bomber contract, which was awarded to Northrop Grumman on Tuesday. The companies said in a release issued shortly after the...
The Air Force plans to use a mix of Contractor Logistics Support and organic maintenance on initial versions of the Long-Range Strike Bomber, with a plan to transition to an all-organic capability “at the appropriate time,” a service spokeswoman said...
House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday detailed a bipartisan two-year budget compromise that places more money in the Defense Department’s base budget, rather than padding the overseas contingency operations fund, and provides more certainty for budgeters and planners....
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday expressed their frustration that the US has not enacted a no-fly zone in Syria to stop the Assad regime’s use of barrel bombs and to protect coalition-supported forces from Russian air...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday outlined changes the military is making to its campaign against ISIS, including changes to the failed train and equip program, which was put on hold earlier this month. US forces will no longer train...
Pentagon acquisition officials cleared the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) to enter low-rate initial production following a successful review, officials at Hanscom AFB, Mass., announced. “FAB-T will allow seamless, uninterrupted command and control of our strategic forces in...
Lockheed Martin re-delivered the 31st C-5M Super Galaxy from its conversion line at Marietta, Ga., Oct. 23. The former C-5B, serial number 84-0060, was first delivered in April 1984, and logged some 20,930 flying hours before being upgraded, according to...
