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“We just kind of need to get their no-kidding ground truth of, ‘this is what we think we can deliver and when we think we can deliver it,’” Andrew Hunter, the service’s acquisition chief, said in a Sept. 5 interview at the Pentagon.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak approved a framework agreement to acquire M142 HIMARS missile launcher components for the HOMAR-A system. According to a press release from the Ministry of Defense, Poland approved the framework agreement to ac…
“Global demand is high, and for our customers to have assured production is important, especially given Poland’s proximity to Ukraine,” a Lockheed official said.
The defense giant previously expected to deliver the first in a new series of upgraded F-35s by the end of this year, a schedule that has now slipped to April 2024 at the earliest.
A Raytheon spokesperson said an upgraded domestic variant of the missile would be fielded “by the end of the year,” with an international variant expected to pass a critical milestone in “late 2023 or early 2024.”
The letter of intent comes after the Biden administration approved the re-export of the fourth generation jets to Ukraine.
The testbed will ultimately support the Marines’s “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) goals, which involve Marines operating in contested environments with increased bandwidth requirements,” according to Lockheed Martin.
In total, the Marine Corps plans to purchase up to 200 CH-53Ks as part of the program of record.
The Air Force fired another all-up round test of the Lockheed Martin-made ARRW, but like a previous test that a top official later admitted fell short of its goals, the service won’t claim that this test met all its objectives.
The award to Northrop Grumman Space Systems has a total value of approximately $733 million; the Lockheed Martin award, approximately $816 million, the SDA release said. All totaled, the Space Development Agency up to now has awarded nearly $4.5 billio…