The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has decided to focus on Raytheon’s design for the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) program.
Senior Airman Kristoffer Kaubisch or Senior Airman Andrew Crawford / Public domain
Elizabeth Thorn, LRSO’s program manager said the decision is not a down-select. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon were given Technology Maturation and Risk (TMRR) contracts for the program in 2017.
“We are reframing our relationship with Lockheed Martin to focus on specific technology maturation we believe either has future applicability for the final LRSO design or will reduce overall program risk,” Thorn said.
The LRSO is designed to be a nuclear-armed cruise missile to replace the AGM-86.
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