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ATK announced today that it has received a $110 million contract from Lockheed Martin to produce composite components for low rate initial production (LRIP) Lots 5 through 9 of the F-35 Lightning II – Joint Strike Fighter. The contract includes production of multiple components through the LRIP 9 phase of the program
Kongsberg has received an order worth MNOK 125 for rudders and vertical leading edges to the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The order is part of the framework agreement signed in 2008
BAE Systems and Marand, a precision engineering company from the State of Victoria, signed a long-term agreement today on the supply of vertical tails for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- the largest, highest-value package of industrial work on the F-35 program in Australia. The agreement is worth A$790 million of high-technology export business for the aerospace industry in Australia over the life of the program, with subsequent contracts being let yearly
ockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $13,729,506 modification to the previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee contract (N00019-08-C-0028) to exercise an option for the procurement of one ruggedized repair verification radar (RVR) test set in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
The Pentagon announced yesterday that Lockheed Martin Corp., is being awarded a $3,485,385,767 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-09-C-0010)
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has encountered a new, serious problem as a bulkhead on an F-35B fatigue test airframe developed cracks after only 1,500 hours of tests that are due to last 16,000 hours. “The aft bulkhead of the F-35B BH-1 fatigue-test specimen has developed cracks after 1,500 hours of durability testing,” Aviation Week’s Ares blog reported yesterday
The fundamental building block for all future avionics software on the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter has entered flight testing on an F-35 test jet. “Block 1,” the first of three principal software-development blocks for the F-35’s mission systems, made its inaugural flight on Nov
The Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) has launched a competition to buy a new fighter plane to replace its ageing Dasault Mirage 2000-5s. Evaluation of the likely candidates has begun, the service’s commander, Brig
The cockpit demonstrator of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the latest fighter plane from Lockheed Martin which is designed to become the mainstay of the U.S