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27th Oct 2001, 11:23
Lockheed Martin Team Wins Joint Strike Fighter Competition, Pledges Full Commitment to This Cornerstone of Future Defense Capability
BETHESDA, MD; FORT WORTH, TX - The Pentagon today 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 U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
This win signals a go-ahead for the team of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE SYSTEMS to produce an initial 22 aircraft in the program's $25 billion System Design and Development (SDD)(formerly know as Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)) phase. The total program is valued at approximately $200 billion and will be a cornerstone of future defense capability for the United States and its allied partners. Plans call for more than 3,000 aircraft over the life of the program. The Joint Strike Fighter is designed to replace the A-10, the AV-8 Harrier, F-16 and the F/A-18.
Joint Strike Fighter is a program designed to develop a family of stealthy, next- generation replacement strike fighter aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. The supersonic JSF evolved from the Joint Advanced Strike Technology program, which entered the concept design definition research phase in December 1994. The JSF program entered its current phase, the Concept Demonstration Phase, in November 1996, when two contractors, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, were selected to build and fly concept-demonstration aircraft. A down-select to one contractor or contractor team for engineering and manufacturing development is scheduled for fall 2001, following flight testing which will conclude the same year. All three Lockheed Martin JSF demonstrators have completed government-mandated flight-test requirements. The X-35A (U.S. Air Force), X-35B (U.S. Marine Corps/U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) and X-35C (U.S. Navy) all demonstrated aerial refueling, handling qualities, acceleration and deceleration, formation flying at different altitudes, and logged many other achievements, including supersonic flight. Additionally, the X-35C carrier variant made the first-ever transcontinental flight of an X plane, completed 250 practice carrier landings at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. and was flown by eight pilots from the U.S. and U.K. . The short-takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) X-35B, with its unique shaft-driven lift-fan propulsion system, achieved the JSF program’s first vertical takeoff and vertical landing on June 23, 2001. It went on to complete 17 vertical takeoff/hover/vertical landing missions before fulfilling all government requirements in subsequent flight testing.
Boeings chairman and CEO Phil Condit made the following statement:
Washington, D.C. , Oct. 26, 2001 – The government's Joint Strike Fighter decision is a real disappointment to us. It was a tough competition, we learned a great deal, and we are ready to go forward.
I want to acknowledge the incredible effort by the men and women of the Boeing One Team. They designed a great airplane. They ran a great flight test program. They should be extremely proud of their efforts. I am.
We are ready to take what they accomplished and apply it everywhere across Boeing to build on what they have done and build a better company.
We also want to congratulate the Lockheed Martin team. They did a great job and are a worthy competitor. We know because we have worked with them on a number of programs. And we stand ready to bring our capabilities and skills to Lockheed Martin's team should they choose to do so.
The decision today does not have a material impact on our 2001 financial outlook. For 2002, the overall revenue will be lowered by an estimated $1 billion to about $55 billion. It does not have an impact on our margins or free cash.
In the last 50 years, Boeing's aerospace expertise has developed and produced more than 19,000 tactical jet fighters - more than twice as many as any other U.S. company - with an unmatched record of quality and performance.
The time we spent in this competition was a strategic investment. The work that we did on the 777, to the work that's been done on the F/A-18E/F, the C-17 - we took all of that transitioned it into the Joint Strike Fighter and used that to produce some very dramatic work. That team came up with new methods of manufacturing, new ways of designing, that we will use in every program inside Boeing as we go forward.
Now we have great military programs - from the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the C-17, the Apache and the Comanche, the V-22, to unmanned combat aerial vehicles. We have exciting projects in the future - from Deep Water, the Coast Guard's modernization program, to our new 767 aerial tankers that are designed to replace some 500 aging tankers in the U.S. Air Force fleet.
We are going to stay focused on the tasks ahead. Our mission is to support the men and women of the armed forces of the United States. We owe them the very best of Boeing and we are committed to providing that every single day.
Boeing was built by people who dreamed about the future, dreamed about new frontiers, and that spirit continues to drive us today. There are a lot of frontiers out there yet to conquer and we are going to conquer them.
BETHESDA, MD; FORT WORTH, TX - The Pentagon today 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 U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
This win signals a go-ahead for the team of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE SYSTEMS to produce an initial 22 aircraft in the program's $25 billion System Design and Development (SDD)(formerly know as Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)) phase. The total program is valued at approximately $200 billion and will be a cornerstone of future defense capability for the United States and its allied partners. Plans call for more than 3,000 aircraft over the life of the program. The Joint Strike Fighter is designed to replace the A-10, the AV-8 Harrier, F-16 and the F/A-18.
Joint Strike Fighter is a program designed to develop a family of stealthy, next- generation replacement strike fighter aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. The supersonic JSF evolved from the Joint Advanced Strike Technology program, which entered the concept design definition research phase in December 1994. The JSF program entered its current phase, the Concept Demonstration Phase, in November 1996, when two contractors, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, were selected to build and fly concept-demonstration aircraft. A down-select to one contractor or contractor team for engineering and manufacturing development is scheduled for fall 2001, following flight testing which will conclude the same year. All three Lockheed Martin JSF demonstrators have completed government-mandated flight-test requirements. The X-35A (U.S. Air Force), X-35B (U.S. Marine Corps/U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) and X-35C (U.S. Navy) all demonstrated aerial refueling, handling qualities, acceleration and deceleration, formation flying at different altitudes, and logged many other achievements, including supersonic flight. Additionally, the X-35C carrier variant made the first-ever transcontinental flight of an X plane, completed 250 practice carrier landings at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. and was flown by eight pilots from the U.S. and U.K. . The short-takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) X-35B, with its unique shaft-driven lift-fan propulsion system, achieved the JSF program’s first vertical takeoff and vertical landing on June 23, 2001. It went on to complete 17 vertical takeoff/hover/vertical landing missions before fulfilling all government requirements in subsequent flight testing.
Boeings chairman and CEO Phil Condit made the following statement:
Washington, D.C. , Oct. 26, 2001 – The government's Joint Strike Fighter decision is a real disappointment to us. It was a tough competition, we learned a great deal, and we are ready to go forward.
I want to acknowledge the incredible effort by the men and women of the Boeing One Team. They designed a great airplane. They ran a great flight test program. They should be extremely proud of their efforts. I am.
We are ready to take what they accomplished and apply it everywhere across Boeing to build on what they have done and build a better company.
We also want to congratulate the Lockheed Martin team. They did a great job and are a worthy competitor. We know because we have worked with them on a number of programs. And we stand ready to bring our capabilities and skills to Lockheed Martin's team should they choose to do so.
The decision today does not have a material impact on our 2001 financial outlook. For 2002, the overall revenue will be lowered by an estimated $1 billion to about $55 billion. It does not have an impact on our margins or free cash.
In the last 50 years, Boeing's aerospace expertise has developed and produced more than 19,000 tactical jet fighters - more than twice as many as any other U.S. company - with an unmatched record of quality and performance.
The time we spent in this competition was a strategic investment. The work that we did on the 777, to the work that's been done on the F/A-18E/F, the C-17 - we took all of that transitioned it into the Joint Strike Fighter and used that to produce some very dramatic work. That team came up with new methods of manufacturing, new ways of designing, that we will use in every program inside Boeing as we go forward.
Now we have great military programs - from the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the C-17, the Apache and the Comanche, the V-22, to unmanned combat aerial vehicles. We have exciting projects in the future - from Deep Water, the Coast Guard's modernization program, to our new 767 aerial tankers that are designed to replace some 500 aging tankers in the U.S. Air Force fleet.
We are going to stay focused on the tasks ahead. Our mission is to support the men and women of the armed forces of the United States. We owe them the very best of Boeing and we are committed to providing that every single day.
Boeing was built by people who dreamed about the future, dreamed about new frontiers, and that spirit continues to drive us today. There are a lot of frontiers out there yet to conquer and we are going to conquer them.