Lockheed Martin beat out Boeing to supply the Department of Defense with a set of next-generation tactical radios for aircraft, ships, and ground installations. Under a $766 million developmental contract announced March 28 for the Joint Tactical Radio System Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Stations program, the company will build modular interoperable radios for more than 160 platforms, including Army helicopters, Air Force C-130 transports, Navy submarines and surface ships, and USAF fixed and deployable ground command and control systems, enabling the sharing of secure voice and video communications. Lockheed Martin’s team includes BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.
To counter Chinese ambitions, the U.S. Space Force must start work now to put Guardians in orbit and on the moon in the decades to come, according to a new paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.