Lockheed Martin is drawing up ideas for ways to turn its Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile into a delivery system for smaller munitions and potentially small unmanned aerial systems, a configuration that could be immediately available with federal funding, a company official told Inside the Air Force this week. Lockheed is exploring upgrades to the GPS-guided missile, which usually houses a 1,000-lb payload, that would allow it to fly missions other than point-to-point bombing of hard, deeply buried targets. The...
