MilitaryF-35 Deliveries Temporarily Paused to Inspect Damage to Lightning Protection System The contractor of the U.S. military’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter paused deliveries in early June for three weeks to investigate damage on the system that protects the aircraft’s engine from lightning strikes,…
MilitaryNew Report Finds Removing Turkey From F-35 Program Risks Pushing Test Schedule Right A new government watchdog report warns that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is once again at risk of missing its test schedule, amid the ongoing removal of former program partner Turkey and…
MilitaryRoper: Air Force Plans to Finalize NGAD Business Plan This Summer The Air Force will soon have a business case to support a novel method to develop next-generation fighter jets more quickly and efficiently, the service’s acquisition czar said June 9. Assistant Secretary…
MilitaryAir Force, Boeing Reach New Agreement on KC-46A The Air Force and Boeing announced April 2 that they have agreed upon a solution to fix the remote vision system on the KC-46A Pegasus, in the hopes of resolving one of the tanker…
MilitaryUS Air Force Officials Expect KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix by 2023 The Air Force expects to receive a solution to its biggest Category-1 deficiency on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker by 2023, one year behind previous estimates, the service’s senior military official told the…
MilitaryUS Air Force Scoping Market Availability for New F-15 Radar Sources The Air Force’s F-15 program office is considering awarding a new contract to produce, modernize and sustain the APG-82 radar system and any future variants, according to a recent solicitation. A “Sources…
MilitaryLockheed Awarded $2.3 Billion in Various F-35 Contracts at Year’s End The Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin five contracts worth a cumulative $2.3 billion at the end of 2019 for various work related to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, to include logistics services for delivered…
MilitaryF-35 JPO: ALIS Fix Targeted for September 2020 The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin expect to field a modernized, upgraded version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) by next fall, service and industry officials told…