The Air Force has decided to proceed with Raytheon as the sole-source prime contractor for the Long-Range Standoff Weapon, the service announced April 17. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have been maturing designs for the nuclear cruise missile program under separate agreements -- each worth about $900 million -- that the Air Force awarded in August 2017. Both companies passed system-level program design reviews in December and were expected to continue their work as prime contractors until the program starts engineering...
