Yearly Archive: 2020

Lockheed Wins $74M for F-35 Development Laboratories

Lockheed Wins $74M for F-35 Development Laboratories

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $73,844,598 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract N00019-20-C-0037.

This contract modification exercises an option to provide continued F-35 development lab infrastructure activ…

Collins to Upgrade USAF F-15 Fleet with ACES 5 Ejection Seats

Collins to Upgrade USAF F-15 Fleet with ACES 5 Ejection Seats

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa –– Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., today announced that the company has been awarded a sole-source $700 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the delta qualification, production and fielding of a next gene…
Pentagon Releases New Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy

Pentagon Releases New Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy

The Defense Department today released the “2020 Department of Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy,” a road map for how the U.S. military can maintain freedom of action in the electromagnetic spectrum at the time, place, and parameters of its choosing.

The electromagnetic spectru…

GAO Slams US Navy Failings in Ship Maintenance

GAO Slams US Navy Failings in Ship Maintenance

The Navy’s July 2020 report identified two key causes and several contributing factors regarding maintenance delays for aircraft carriers, surface ships, and submarines, but did not identify other causes.

For public shipyards, the Navy’s report identified the key cause of maintenance delays as i…

Navy Aviators Learn to “Fly” the MQ-25 Unmanned Tanker

Navy Aviators Learn to “Fly” the MQ-25 Unmanned Tanker

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — U.S. Navy aviators are already learning how to “fly” the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueler before the first air vehicle comes off the production line.

Four Navy air vehicle operators (AVOs) from VX-23, the Navy’s developmental test squadron, and VX-1, the operational test squ…

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