Air Force to end Lockheed's LRSO funding this month, considers accelerating schedule

By Sara Sirota / April 20, 2020 at 7:56 PM
The Air Force will stop funding Lockheed Martin's risk-reduction work for the Long-Range Standoff Weapon program, after announcing last week it had chosen Raytheon's design, and is looking at ways to speed up the program's schedule. The service revealed in an April 17 press release it's proceeding with Raytheon as the sole-source prime contractor for LRSO , rather than wait to choose a prime contractor toward the end of the ongoing technology-maturation and risk-reduction phase in fiscal year 2022 as...

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