The Pentagon will initially worth his decision to announce the next generation hunter contract more than $ 20 billion as soon as Friday, despite earlier concerns about budget restrictions and shifting priorities, sources are aware of the plan.
The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program will replace the F -22 Raptor of Lockheed Martin with a hunter built to fight with drones.
Lockheed And Boeing Compete right to the head for the winner-all-engineering and production development phase contract with a value of more than $ 20 billion.
A Air force Spokesperson and representatives of Boeing and Lockheed did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
The winner of the High-Stakes match receives hundreds of billions of dollars in orders during the life of the contract, which have been supporting their companies for decades.
A Raptor of the US Pacific Air Force F-22 performs an air display during a media preview of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 9, 2020. (Reuters/Edgar SU/File photo)
NGAD was conceived as a “family of systems” aimed at a sixth generation fighter jet that has created the United States, advanced air dominance capacities to combat almost-pear opponents such as China and Russia.
Under President Donald Trump’s Administration, which took office in January, the program progressed after a period of uncertainty that has made doubts about the future of the next generation of fighter jet.
Last year the program was confronted with potential delays or scaling back due to budget pressure and cost overruns in other Air Force programs. There were also discussions about reconsidering fundamental design elements or moving resources to unmanned drone programs.
The expected announcements signals designs that were completed last year are chosen for NGAD.
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Boeing has had a headwind for both his commercial and defense companies. A victory would be a shot for his St. Louis, Missouri, Fighter Jet Production companies, while a loss would contribute to the misery of Boeing.
Lockheed was recently eliminated from the competition to build the navy on the next generation, on carrier-based Stealth-hunter. If it loses the NGAD contract, it will probably double his F-35 Fighter JET program and international sale of its F-16 Jets.
