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Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 11 that it is developing the AN/APG-85 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for Lot 17 and beyond of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. The APG-85 will be the follow-on to the F-35’s current AN…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) said on Jan. 11 that a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger drone advanced the company’s internally funded work on Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) in three autonomous missions last month. On Dec. 14, …
A developmental test team from the 461st Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) configuration of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter for the first time on Jan. 6, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said on…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] is to help oversee the System Requirements Review for Leidos‘ [LDOS] Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic aircraft proposal for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Kratos said on Jan. 10. Leid…
Canada has finalized a deal to buy 88 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As to replace 76 Boeing [BA] CF-18 Hornet fighters for the Royal Canadian Air Force. More than nine months ago, Canada said it had begun negotiations with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. gove…
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems $605 million to design, build and deliver the first two prototype Missile Track Custody spa…
Raytheon Techologies’ [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing’s [BA] Millennium Space Systems–both in El Segundo, Calif.–are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead P…
The U.S. Air Force Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program for the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter received $220 million–a nearly $153 million increase over the budget request–in the fiscal 2023 omnib…
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that it is uncertain when resumption of deliveries and flight acceptance testing of the F-35 fighter will start, as the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) investigation of an F-35B mishap on Dec. 15 continues…
What are the origins of the names TaoSecurity and the unit formerly known as TAO? IntroductionI’ve been reading Nicole Perlroth’s new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends. Her discussion of the group formerly known as Tailored Access…