The U.S. Navy and Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business deployed two StormBreaker guided test vehicles from an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft and found that the weapon system carried out the required flight behaviors during the test. The deployed weapon systems reached a speed of .9 Mach and completed a seven-shot rate capture series […] More

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have jointly tested a next-generation fighter jet engine for the F-35 aircraft at the service branch’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. The company said the second phase of testing on the XA100 three-stream adaptive cycle engine was concluded in August in preparation for its maturation and full-scale […] More

Textron‘s Airborne Tactical Advantage Company subsidiary has secured a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide Mirage F1 aircraft to conduct chase flight services in support of the F-35 program. Three Mirage F1 planes will be used to support F-35 aircraft with flight operations set to begin late this year or early 2023 at the […] More

Frank Kendall, secretary of the U.S. Air Force, received an update on the maintenance and modernization of the Pratt & Whitney-made F135 engines at the Tinker Air Force Base’s Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex. The Raytheon Technologies-owned engine manufacturer works with the OC-ALC leadership team to develop a framework for providing maintenance work on the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded three-month contracts to Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies to support the initial phase of a program meant to build a stand-in attack weapon that could be used by the F-35 fighter aircraft to counter hostile air defenses, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lena Lopez, a spokeswoman for the […] More

General Electric recently started the second testing phase of a three-stream adaptive cycle engine for the F-35 aircraft at the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. Phase 2 prepares for the maturation and full-scale development of the GE XA100 engine as part of the service branch’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program, the company […] More

System High will continue to help the Department of Defense protect global F-35 fleet operations under a five-year, $105 million contract. The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded the contract for multidisciplinary security services to development, deployment and sustainment efforts associated with the Lockheed Martin-built fighter aircraft, System High said Tuesday. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More

The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on interested vendors with a capability to meet the requirements of the F-35 Adaptive Engine Replacement program. The service will use the responses from the market research to determine potential sources’ capability to deliver a propulsion system that can be integrated into the F-35A weapon platform and whether […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has received a one-year, $13.4 million order from Naval Air Systems Command to help the F-35 Joint Program Office develop, operate and secure a cloud software ecosystem. The U.S. Air Force will obligate $1.8 million on this award issued under a basic ordering agreement and the company is expected to finish work […] More

Lockheed Martin recorded a range of testing, sales and performance milestones achieved by the F-35 aircraft in 2021. The previous year saw Switzerland and Finland joining the F-35 customer base and Denmark receiving its first F-35 unit, the company said Monday. The Netherlands also became the ninth country to declare initial operational capability of the […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a $493 million contract to upgrade the electronic warfare system aboard the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. BAE said Wednesday it will provide updated core hardware for the fighter aircraft’s AN/ASQ-239 EW system to improve warfighters’ situational awareness and countermeasure and electromagnetic attack capabilities. The modernized EW system will […] More

BAE Systems‘ Australian subsidiary has secured a potential $57 million contract to help maintain the Australian air force’s F-35 aircraft fleet and perform supply chain support work as part of a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. The company said Wednesday it expects to develop a supply chain of more than 70 small and medium businesses across […] More