Northrop Grumman says sustainment and upgrade work have begun while the Raider remains in flight testing

Company is testing autonomy systems from other developers and pursuing opportunities beyond its own unmanned aircraft

Aircraft will now receive TACAMO mission systems from Northrop Grumman before replacing the Boeing E-6B Mercury

PAC-3 Edge builds on a missile already used against Russian weapons in Ukraine, with testing scheduled to begin in 2027

Expansion at US Air Force-owned Plant 42 in Palmdale will increase production capacity for the stealth bomber by 25%

Company-funded combat drone is outside the Air Force’s initial CCA production contracts but remains positioned for future competitions

Company defeats Northrop Grumman in roughly US$20 billion development competition and will now develop both of the Pentagon’s sixth-generation fighter jets

Block II will replace mission-system hardware and software as the US Navy prepares to keep flying a design whose origins date back more than six decades

Aircraft exchanged mission data automatically during test using a common open-architecture interface

Taxi tests of the stealthy unmanned jet come days after the aircraft was first photographed publicly in California