By B.C. Kessner This year has been a banner one for aerostat deployments into Iraq and Afghanistan, with coalition forces developing new ways to use them in support of troops on the ground, according to a Lockheed Martin [LMT] executive. "When you have this continuous eye in the sky, you begin to look at a variety of mission support areas that you may not have realized you had the capability for in the past," Ron Browning, Lockheed Martin airship business…
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HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Thursday rejected a Democrat-led proposal to cut the $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by $150 billion, as the […]
HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the Pentagon to inform the committee of critical technical data rights for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter and how much it would […]
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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]