- Automating airframe assembly
HEADNOTE Aerospace Assembly HEADNOTE Application of lean manufacturing principles and selective automation boost aircraft quality and cut costs IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 5 Northrop Grumman's B-2 can fly bomb loads of more than 20 tons over 6000 nautical miles without refueling. The El Segundo, CA, facility of Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector ......
- Defense contracts awarded.
The Defense Department awarded the following contracts worth $5 million or more to small businesses. Army The Louisiana Recovery Field office, Baton Rouge, LA, made the following firm fixed-price awards for quality assurance services in support of recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. An unknown number of bids were solicited ......
- Navy wraps up review of air-to-ground targeting
systems deployed on fighter jets.
A review of three air-to-ground targeting systems designed for Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps fighter jets is expected to leave current programs intact, sources said. The Navy's top acquisition official, Assistant Secretary John Young, convened an independent panel of experts earlier this year to review the systems, which help ......
- Defense contracts awarded.
The following contracts worth more than $5 million were awarded to small businesses. Defense Logistics Agency Campbellsville Apparel Co. LLC, Campbellsville, KY, is being awarded a maximum $10,259,400, fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for men's crewneck undershirts. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Other ......
- Joining the pieces: engineers are choreographing the
assembly of the Joint Strike Fighter.
From its inception, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was to be a single aircraft platform for deployment by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. But the services' different missions required variants of the F-35 airframe and structure. The Air Force needed a tough, lightweight aircraft that could operate ......
- Commandant: Short-Takeoff JSF is
'affordable'; lockheed martin receives $19 billion contract to
build 22 test aircraft.
The Marine Corps version of the Joint Strike Fighter, at approximately $50 million a piece, would be an "affordable" airplane, when compared to the prices seen in other aviation programs today, said Gen. James L. Jones, commandant of the Corps. The JSF prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., won the competition ......
- Lockheed Martin Wins JSF Contract.
The Pentagon recently announced that an international team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a stealthy, supersonic, multirole fighter designed for the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. This ......