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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 meant what it said. But yes; the Pentagon really has revealed that there’s strange stuff in the sky t...

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 all Defense Department aircraft. “In order to stay competitive, we have to innovate,” said Lt. Col...

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 all Defense Department aircraft. “In order to stay competitive, we have to innovate,” said Lt. Col...

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 lander on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.