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Lockheed Martin has completed the construction of an advanced manufacturing facility at the Skunk Works campus in Palmdale, California.

Vindicated: rocker and UFO expert Tom DeLonge Credit: Getty On May 16, the US current affairs digest 60 Minutes put out a sensational tweet trailing its next edition. “After decades of public denial, the Pentagon now admits the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena - or UAP - more commonly known as UFO,” it read. “And the Senate wants answers.” It was difficult not to hear Orson Welles’ voice in your internal monologue. Harder still to comprehend that the headline actually mea...

For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 Lightning II data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a recent ground test at The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment, or FoX, a project that seeks to rapidly integrate advanced software and hardware technologies to maximize the F-35’s lethality and survivability, while creating an agile development test tool and fielded combat multiplier for al...

For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 Lightning II data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a recent ground test at The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment, or FoX, a project that seeks to rapidly integrate advanced software and hardware technologies to maximize the F-35’s lethality and survivability, while creating an agile development test tool and fielded combat multiplier for al...

CBS News Private companies compete for history as NASA shops for a new lunar lander After years of development and countless tests of its rocket and crew capsule, NASA almost has all the hardware it needs to send astronauts back to the moon. For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA is shopping for a new lander for its Artemis program. "When I see this, it just gives me goosebumps," Lisa Watson-Morgan, who leads the program, told CBS News Mark Strassmann as she walked by the Apollo land...

By Jamal Sutter, 413th Flight Test Group Public Affairs / Published April 16, 2021 An F-35A Lightning II fighter jet assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, takes off during Red Flag 20-1 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, Feb. 5, 2020. A recent ground test conducted at Nellis proved that Air Force personnel could safely and securely take data output from a flight test instrumentation system and convert the F-35’s data to communicate with mobile applications ru...

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By Garrett Reim2021-04-06T09:06:00+01:00 The sight of an aircraft crashing and burning is for most engineers the stuff of nightmares. But, for engineers developing a new class of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) called attritable aircraft, such destruction is not likely to elicit more than a shoulder shrug. Attritable aircraft are designed to be thrown out – eventually. Source: Boeing Attritable aircraft require a change in mindset, says Boeing The US Air Force (USAF) believes that by designing a...

SR-72 Darkstar: The Secret Spy Plane the U.S. Military Wants Back in 2013, Lockheed Martin proposed a follow-up to the SR-71. Fittingly, it was the SR-72, which has also become known as the "Son of the Blackbird," and it was suggested that the vehicle could fly by 2023 – that is unless it has already taken flight. It was over twenty years ago the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was retired by the United States Air Force, and while surveillance satellites can provide that eye in the sky for intell...

By Garrett Reim2021-01-29T23:33:00+00:00 Lockheed Martin’s board of directors has elected its president and chief executive James Taiclet to an additional role, chairman of the board, starting 1 March. Former chief executive and current executive chairman Marillyn Hewson plans to retire from the board, the company said on 29 January. Hewson stepped down from her former role as chief executive in June 2020. Source: Lockheed Martin Chief executive James Taiclet and executive chairman Marillyn H...