"As we work each individual case, we will adjust our [production] line as necessary to provide those capabilities as long as the demand exists," said OJ Sanchez, vice president of F-16 and F-22 programs at Lockheed Martin.
“I think there are elements of the ground infrastructure where there may be opportunities for competition that we can add to the acquisition strategy for Sentinel," said Andrew Hunter, the Air Force's top acquisition official.
“Since not everything that we contracted for has been delivered, payment is also not complete. We will not pay for that which we have not yet received,” said Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter.
"There is credit here for Boeing and the suppliers. They did really buckle down and get their pencils out and sharpen them and do a good job to bring the cost of the rapid prototyping program down," said Andrew Hunter, the service's top acquisition official.
The DoD stopped accepting new production F-35s with the TR-3 upgrades in July 2023.
From an Apache perspective, Lockheed's JAGM is a "very capable addition to the current weapon inventory,” said Lt. Col. Rich Simcock, 3 Regt. Army Air Corp (AAC) Commanding Officer.
In the air domain, achieving “overmatch” means securing superiority in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and heeding electronic-warfare lessons learned from Ukraine.
“GCAP is completely impossible if there’s a war in Europe in the coming five years because the global economy will have completely tanked,” said Justin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower and technology at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK defense think tank.
“We are at that stage of planning” around what we should include, Saltzman noted, adding that all three nations see a potential Pillar II space agreement “as a valuable tool.”
The new weapon, dubbed CAMS, would be used by numerous other countries and cost $1.5 million per all-up-round.