Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) might help extend the viability of the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter aircraft beyond 2025 and help make sure the F-16 remains a very important part of the nation’s fighter force structure. Skip Wagner, director of International Business Development and Strategy for Northrop Grumman’s ISR and Targeting Systems Division, provided details at the radar upgrades to reporters in a briefing today on the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition 2013. Northrop Grumman was chosen by prime contractor Lockheed Martin because the radar provider for the F-16 Combat Avionics Programmed... Read More »
Support and upkeep of world C-17 fleet continues through Boeing’s Globemaster III Integrated Sustainment Program Production continues at 10 C-17s per year for 22 additional new aircraft Boeing’s 2013 financial guidance unchanged Boeing will complete production of the C-17 Globemaster III and shut the C-17 final assembly facility in Long Beach, Calif. in 2015. “Ending C-17 production was an extraordinarily difficult but necessary decision,” said Dennis Muilenburg, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. “We need to thank the highly skilled and talented employees who’ve built this great airlifter for greater than twenty years- and those... Read More »
The B-52 Stratofortress will soon receive a software upgrade to be able to keep the aircraft on the forefront of the U.S. strategic bomber fleet. As new equipment and advanced weapons are added to the B-52 fleet, the B-52 Software Block (BSB) upgrades allow the aircraft to make use of the total potential of these new and improved systems. “Think in the case of your house,” Air Force Global Strike Command B-52 program analyst Nathan Dawn said. “This is analogous to when your cable provider will give you a brand new cable modem, so that you upgrade the software in... Read More »
The Army displayed energy-efficient technologies within the Pentagon courtyard which are used or being developed to make Soldiers more advantageous at the battlefield. The G-4 Operational Energy team hosted the development Nov. 14, showcasing technologies comparable to a rigid wall shelter, an Integrated Soldier Power/Data System, generators and transportable solar panels. Army leaders who toured the displays include Under Secretary of the military Dr. Joseph W. Westphal, Sgt. Maj. of the military Raymond F. Chandler III, and Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the military for Installations, Energy and Environment. Lt. Col. Roger D. Kuykendall, product manager for Common Engines with... Read More »