Lockheed Martin and ITT are teaming to vie to build USAF’s next generation Global Positioning System Block III satellite, according to a Lockheed press release. As in their previous partnership on the GPS Block IIR and IIR-M series, Lockheed will be the prime contractor and spacecraft integrator, while ITT will provide the navigation payloads. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile System Center expects to award the multi-billion contract next year.
President Joe Biden still hopes to shift to a “sole purpose” policy for nuclear weapons in the future, even as his administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review preserves the U.S.’s longstanding policy of “flexible deterrence,” a top Pentagon official said. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, speaking at a side…