Need an air traffic management component for a particular aircraft, go online with Electronic Systems Center’s new automated Web-based shopping service. ESC’s Global Air Traffic Management Division at Hanscom AFB, Mass., created an online catalog of commercial-off-the-shelf ATM components that enable aircraft acquisition offices to select specific components they need and click a button to place the order. ESC officials say, the catalog approach cuts the acquisition timeline from months to weeks, eliminating the need for some 40 platform acquisition offices to conduct their own source selection efforts.
Congress wants new engines in the F-35 fleet, with installs starting in 2027, according to language in the conference version of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The Air Force is to use at least one of the engines developed under the Advanced Engine Transition Program, but the Navy and…