The U.S. Air Force on July 1 awarded Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] missiles and defense division in Tucson, Ariz. a $2 billion cost plus contract with performance incentives for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Long Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO). The contract ...
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The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Joint Information Warfare (JIW) team developed and helped field AI malware detection and threat detection tools and is now looking to develop AI for the space realm. Established in fiscal 2019 as JAIC’s Cyber Mission Initiative, ...
The U.S. Air Force fiscal 2022 budget requests nearly $711 million for 525 Lockheed Martin [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Munitions Extended Range (JASSM-ER)–an increase of almost $211 million and 125 missiles from the fiscal 2021 congressionally funded amount. The service said that the ...
The U.S. Air Force’s Golden Horde Vanguard program finished the last flight test of the Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb I (CSDB I) on May 25 at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) said. During the third and final May 25 flight test, as in the January ...
By the end of this month, the Pentagon Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) is to lay out requirements for the military services under the Joint Warfighting Concept’s (JWC) four areas–Joint Global Fires, Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), Contested Logistics, and Information ...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking alternative sources to build the BRU-57 smart bomb rack by L3Harris Technologies [LHX]. The Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 Block 40 and above fighters are able to carry the rack, which has served for two decades as a carrier of 500-pound and 1,000-pound munitions, such as ...