Lockheed Martin has achieved training milestones for pilots and maintenance personnel under the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet program, Defence Blogreported Friday.
Lockheed Martin has received a three-year, $81.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to build specific hardware and software capabilities from the Block 4 configuration in support of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft’s developmental flight tests.
Lockheed Martin has handed over to the U.S. Marine Corps the 134th unit of a multirole fighter designed to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Lockheed Martin has received a four-year, $77.7M contract modification to deliver long lead materials, parts and software data loads to support low-rate initial production efforts for lots 12, 13 and 14 of the U.S. Navy’s F-35 Lightning II aircraft fleet.
Lockheed Martin has partnered withPremium Aerotec to investigate which F-35 aircraft components can be produced through the use of 3D printing methods to decrease manufacturing costs.
Lockheed Martin has selectedCubic’s mission solutions business to deliver video data link systems for F-35 Lightning II aircraft units to optimize the aircraft’s combat capacity.
U.K.-based aerospace equipment provider Meggitt will continue to supply Pratt & Whitney advanced composite components for F135 and F119 engines under a potential 10-year, $750M contract. F135 and F119 are used to power the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor fighter jets, Meggitt said Monday.
Michele Evans, who assumed the role of executive vice president for Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business area in October 2018, has discussed the company’s efforts to reduce the price of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft and other plans for the fighter jet program, the Dallas Business Journal reported Wednesday. Lockheed plans to lower the price of the F-35A variant to $80M by 2020, according to the report.
Lockheed Martin has awarded Cubic’s global defense segment a contract of an undisclosed value to build an air combat training system for the F-35 Lightning II program. Cubic said Thursday it will deliver more than 500 ACTS subsystems over the next four years as part of F-35 production lots 12 to 14. The system will incorporate the P5 ground software […] More
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 400th unit of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter’s Electro-Optical Targeting System under a low-rate initial production contract. The EOTS uses forward-looking and infrared search and track tools to help pilots verify targets and deploy weapons that rely on laser guidance and the global positioning system, Lockheed said Wednesday. “Achieving […] More
Northrop Grumman has begun full-rate production of the center fuselage of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Northrop said Friday the phase marks the start of a production interval in which a fuselage will be manufactured every day and a half. Frank Carus, vice president and F-35 program manager at Northrop, said the […] More