NASA Transfers X-37 Project to DARPA

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

WASHINGTON — NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year.

Northrop Achieves Key Risk-Reduction Milestone for Unmanned Rotorcraft Program

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15, 2004 -- During recent flight tests, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully demonstrated key elements of the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR)'s autonomous vehicle management system, evaluating hardware and software that will allow the UCAR system to operate a...

Lockheed F/A-22 Program Focused on Reliable Production, Solid Performance...

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2004 -- Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Deputy Vice President for Business Development Rob Weiss said yesterday that the Lockheed Martin-led Raptor industry team has reached a new level of program maturity with reliable production, solid performance and expanding capa...

Northrop to Deliver Four B-2s with New Bomb Racks

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

Northrop Grumman is on schedule to deliver by year's end the first four B-2 bombers to be equipped with new bomb racks that will enable the aircraft to drop five times as many precision weapons on a single flight, according to company officials.

Chief of staff outlines plans for fewer combat aircraft

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

9/13/2004 - WASHINGTON -- The Air Force will have fewer fighters and strike aircraft, but the lethality of those that remain will increase, the service’s top general said Sept. 13 at the 2004 Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition here.

AFA.org: The New Air Force Fighter Debate

Posted at: Wed Sep 15th, 2004

Over the next 15 years, the size of the Air Force’s fighter fleet will decline by at least 10 percent but perhaps as much as 25 percent. This will constitute the largest reduction in the fighter force since the end of the Cold War, but it is not driven by a diminishing threat. It will be the resul...