Northrop Grumman has teamed with Israeli Aerospace Industries to build and launch operational all weather, day/night surveillance satellites in “ responsive production cycle,” states a company release. The plan is to provide low-cost, rapid response—about 28 months—system that “complements both existing and US military and intelligence community capabilities being developed.”
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.