The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, awarded Boeing a $27.5 million modification contract to provide support repairs and spare radars for the F-15 Radar Modernization Program, the Pentagon announced Monday. The program is providing upgraded active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars, like the ones used on the F-22 and F-35 fighters, for a limited number of F-15s. The work on the modification contract is scheduled to be completed by May 31, 2019, and will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. Also on Monday, Northrop Grumman was awarded an $85.8 million contract to build a high frequency, receiver transmitter for the B-2 Spirit. This work is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 31, 2020, and is being conducted at Edwards AFB, Calif., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, McLean, Va., and Oklahoma City, Okla.
B-21 Temporary Shelters Could Also Shelter B-2s
March 5, 2021
The Air Force's experimental runway shelter for the new B-21 bomber is large enough to cover it or the B-2, and therefore reveals no information about the dimensions of the new aircraft. Two such shelters will be evaluated, but the maker of the second version hasn't been chosen yet.