The company is examining “all offers that’re out on the market today to make that decision, so it’s not going to be a quick choice,” Lockheed’s F-35 program manager Chauncey McIntosh told Breaking Defense.
“I'm ramping up my work. I'm adding new facilities, I'm adding infrastructure, I'm adding cost. That cost has to be carried by someone,” SNC’s Jon Piatt told Breaking Defense.
Kelly Hammett, director of the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, said his organization risks being “inordinately impacted" by workforce reductions underway with the Trump administration.
Lockheed Martin now has its own air vehicle offering that could compete for a follow-on effort to the Enterprise Test Vehicle program.
Representatives of US remote sensing firms remain extremely nervous about possible roadblocks to future plans that require either new licenses or license modifications due to the personnel downsizing resulting from the efforts of Elon Musk's DOGE team to chop the size of the federal bureaucracy.
A source with knowledge of the program told Breaking Defense that Lockheed submitted a bid for the next-gen fighter effort, but the proposal did not satisfy the Navy’s criteria, leaving Boeing and Northrop Grumman as the remaining competitors.
“As we look at the program moving forward, we’re also excited [about] the interest and the demand signal that we’re seeing, both domestically and from potential customers around the world,” Boeing official Azeem Khan told Breaking Defense.
Retired Air Force Brig Gen. Rob Lyman argues in this op-ed that spectrum sharing between the military and industry is the best solution to the "spectrum stalemate" in the US.
Elsewhere, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said his top priority is "space control," a term that for many years was verboten at the Pentagon.
“I think the question is whether this is a temporary thing, or whether it becomes permanent,” one industry official told Breaking Defense.
The decision to pause deliveries was made on Feb. 27 by the service’s KC-46A program office “due to the identification of in the ‘outboard fixed-trailing-edge support structure’” of the two planes, an Air Force spokesperson said.
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After refueling with the American company Metrea for a deployment to the Indo-Pacific, the German Luftwaffe told Breaking Defense that "commercial AAR [air-to-air refueling] is also a valid option for future deployments.”
How RTX is helping the Raptor stay ready to dominate the skies.