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  • Pratt & Whitney Introduces F-35 Engine Power, Thermal Management Upgrade; Matthew Bromberg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pratt & Whitney Introduces F-35 Engine Power, Thermal Management Upgrade; Matthew Bromberg Comments

    A division of United Technologies Corp. has launched an engine update meant to enhance aircraft power and thermal management system capacity. Pratt & Whitney announced Tuesday that its Growth Option 2.0 upgrade for the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II‘s F135 engine is geared to address PTMS functions for future block updates to the aircraft. Matthew Bromberg, president of Pratt & […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB

    Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have delivered the 300th F-35 aircraft. The 300th Lightning II unit is an F-35A variant assigned to the U.S. Air Force‘s Hill AF Base, the company said Monday. At present, 197 conventional takeoff and landing variants, 75 short takeoff/vertical landing variants and 28 carrier variants compose the combined F-35 fleet. Over 620 pilots and […] More

  • Lockheed-Built F-35Bs Arrive at UK Military Air Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built F-35Bs Arrive at UK Military Air Base

    Four Lockheed Martin-built F-35B aircraft have arrived at the Royal Air Force Marham in the U.K. from the U.S. Marine Corps‘ facility in Beaufort, S.C., two months ahead of schedule. U.K.’s Lightning Force aims to achieve initial operational capability for the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing jets by the end of 2018, Lockheed said Wednesday. The F35Bs are scheduled to undergo tests with Queen Elizabeth-class carriers later this […] More

  • Lockheed to Assess F-35 Air System Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Assess F-35 Air System Under Navy Contract

    Lockheed Martin has received a $14.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to determine if the current F-35 air system can address future operational requirements. The company will also help the service branch explore cost and weight reduction strategies as well as conduct modeling and simulation efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work also includes additional analysis efforts to […] More

  • Lockheed’s Steve Over: F-35 Could Someday Release Drones to Target Enemy Air Defenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Steve Over: F-35 Could Someday Release Drones to Target Enemy Air Defenses

    Steve Over, director of F-35 international business development at Lockheed Martin, has said he thinks pilots flying the F-35 Lightning II aircraft could someday operate and launch drones during missions, Forces.net reported Thursday. He noted that the fighter jet in stealth mode could be used in the future to field a drone to trigger an […] More

  • Turkey to Receive First F-35 Aircraft in June - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Turkey to Receive First F-35 Aircraft in June

    Turkey, a parts supplier for the F-35 program, will receive its first delivery of the aircraft on June 21, with a second one to follow after, AA reported Friday. The deliveries follow orders Turkey made in 2014 for two F-35 units that are scheduled for deployment by 2019. The U.S. military is currently training two […] More

  • Navy Receives Northrop-Built F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Northrop-Built F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Platform

    The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of a Northrop Grumman-built multispectral test platform designed to prepare the service branch’s F-35 aircraft for complex missions in electromagnetic spectrum environments. Northrop said Tuesday it shipped the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator, Signal Measurement System and the Synchronizer Controller System to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in Point Mogu, Calif. CEESIM is designed to […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, DoD Reach Agreement on F-35 Repairs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, DoD Reach Agreement on F-35 Repairs

    Lockheed Martin has resumed deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to the Defense Department after both parties addressed differences over aircraft repair costs, Reuters reported Tuesday. The Pentagon’s F-35 joint program office told Reuters that DoD stopped accepting F-35s in late March due to a disagreement on who should be financially responsible for a production quality issue that was […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New F-35 Parts Manufacturing Facility in Florida - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New F-35 Parts Manufacturing Facility in Florida

    Lockheed Martin has opened a facility in Pinellas Park, Florida, to manufacture canopies and bulkheads for F-35 fighter jets. The company said Monday it will commence operations at the manufacturing facility in mid-May and aims to create more than 80 new jobs there through mid-2019. Nearly 270 employees currently work at Lockheed’s Pinellas Park site, which the company expanded to add […] More

  • Report: Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Pursue Germany’s Tornado Jet Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Pursue Germany’s Tornado Jet Replacement Program

    Germany’s defense ministry secured proposals Tuesday from the U.S. government that represents Boeing and Lockheed Martin as well as from Airbus for a program to replace the European country’s fleet of 90 Tornado fighter aircraft by 2025, Reuters reported Tuesday. Airbus has teamed up with BAE Systems and Leonardo to offer the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Complete Final Developmental Test of F-35C Joint Standoff Weapon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Complete Final Developmental Test of F-35C Joint Standoff Weapon

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have finished developmental testing of the Joint Standoff Weapon C warhead for use on the F-35 aircraft’s C variant. The company said Tuesday the 1,000-pound JSOW makes use of a global positioning system-based inertial navigation platform equipped with an infrared seeker made to autonomously detect targets. The air-to-ground weapon system was designed to […] More

  • Lockheed's F-35 completes final system devt & demonstration flight test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-35 completes final system devt & demonstration flight test

    Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of the final flight test of the F-35 program’s system development and demonstration phase. The company and the military completed the final SDD test flight Wednesday by flying the U.S. Navy’s F-35C test aircraft, CF-2, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland to assess the fighter jet’s capability to […] More