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The US Air Force (USAF) has performed its first software drop for its Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider long-range strike bomber programme, according to a key official.
Lieutenant General Arnold Bunch, military deputy, office of the assistant secretary of the USAF for acquisition, told a Senate panel on 18 April that the service is now looking at the second software drop. Modern aircraft platforms, such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) are software intensive.
Lt Gen Bunch may have provided a clue on how cost containment is progressing with B-21. Senator Angus King of Maine asked Lt Gen Bunch whether the programme was falling within the parameters of the contract in terms of cost, but Lt Gen Bunch responded that costs are falling within the parameters of the USAF’s independent cost estimate. He did not mention the contract.
A USAF spokesperson said that she would unlikely be able to expound on Lt Gen Bunch’s testimony.
http://www.janes.com/article/79402/us-air-force-performs-first-b-21-raider-software-drop
Lieutenant General Arnold Bunch, military deputy, office of the assistant secretary of the USAF for acquisition, told a Senate panel on 18 April that the service is now looking at the second software drop. Modern aircraft platforms, such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) are software intensive.
Lt Gen Bunch may have provided a clue on how cost containment is progressing with B-21. Senator Angus King of Maine asked Lt Gen Bunch whether the programme was falling within the parameters of the contract in terms of cost, but Lt Gen Bunch responded that costs are falling within the parameters of the USAF’s independent cost estimate. He did not mention the contract.
A USAF spokesperson said that she would unlikely be able to expound on Lt Gen Bunch’s testimony.
http://www.janes.com/article/79402/us-air-force-performs-first-b-21-raider-software-drop
