The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR) contract worth $81 million to provide a design and functional prototype to replace the ageing Airborne Launch Control System aboard the E-6B Mercury Airborne Command Post. The Airborne Launch Control System-Replacement (ALCS-R) program will provide a ...
L3 Technologies has received a production contract for multiple awards amounting to £97M as part of the U.S. Army’s Apache ‘Manned/Unmanned Teaming – eXpanded Capabilities’ (MUMT-X) helicopter programme. MUMT-X will enable communications and data teaming between manned and unmanned aircraft, providing the Apache AH-64E with “transformational warfighting capabilities”. Crucially, those capabilities ...
L3 Technologies is to deliver Hawkeye III Lite VSAT satellite communications terminals – alongside on-site training – to the US Air National Guard’s Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) teams. The newly announced contract will require L3 to manufacture 46 Hawkeye III Lite 1.2 metre tri-band VSATs during the fourth quarter ...