LRS-B Live Streaming Announcement

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James, and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III will announce the long range strike bomber contract award at 5:15 p.m. EDT in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2E973).

Following their remarks, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Dr. William LaPlante, Gen Robin Rand, commander, Air Force Global Strike Command and Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, Jr, military deputy, Air Force Acquisition will answer questions.

Journalists without a Pentagon building pass will be picked up at the River Entrance only. Plan to arrive no later than 30 minutes prior to the event: have proof of affiliation and two forms of photo identification. Please call 703-697-5131 for escort into the building. The press conference will be streamed live at www.defense.gov

Live streaming link:

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a reply to: drwire

Whoa!! So glad this is being announced before I have to head into work!! Thanks for posting this drwire!
Also, after years of standing back and reading, this is my first ATS posting!
So glad to finally get out of the shadows and put in a comment! looking forward to posting much more and conversing with all you awesome people!!

a reply to: drwire

Search tool is your friend, buddy :-)

Hell, not even the search tool.. It's on the 1st page in the Aircraft Projects section, where you went to click 'create new thread'! lol..


www.abovetopsecret.com...


Cheers.

northrop won

a reply to: boomer135

ARGHHH!!! DON'T SPOIL IT BOOMER!!!

a reply to: HomeyKXTA

The better bomber won. Thank goodness.

a reply to: aholic

so wheres the photo? Wheres the specs? im waiting live, nothing yet.

a reply to: aholic

"The better bomber won" Care to elaborate?

a reply to: BigTrain

There won't be any photos. And Northrop has the better airplane, I'm happy to see that team succeed. Capabilities wise and cost wise its a home run.

a reply to: BigTrain

$511M in 2010 dollars each.

a reply to: anzha

$564M in 2016 dollars.

a reply to: aholic

Whose the angry old geezer on the right side? Looks like hes got something pressing and like hes in a hurry for a air force ball.

The guy cant even try a smile for his bright shiny new toy?

Why no photos aholic? They want us taxpayersa to just "trust them"...like obamacare, youll see it when we pass it kind of thing?

a reply to: BigTrain

The product is still classified, they can't. The first photos will be from spotters out in Nevada. Good time to take a road trip!

What a bunch of idiot reporters and no ask when we would see a glimpse of NG design! Also no one asked if LM will release it's design consideration as well!

a reply to: aholic

Not even a grainy render like the B-2 in 88'?

a reply to: Northernhollow

Nope. Also, "technically" nothing as flown yet, officially. What we say flying a few months back were company funded demonstrators, not USAF property, and it's fairly certain the design will change a bit during the EMD phase. So any photos now wouldn't even resemble the final product. Just think have blue, hopeless diamond etc etc. Not that this is that.

Why are there two threads on this right now?

a reply to: aholic

Actually, speaking as someone who has to navigate government contracts carefully, anything developed with government money is technically government property and can be given to another contractor. Ask Boeing about that with their UAV software.

a reply to: aholic

My hunch is that the Lockmart/Boeing design was basically along the lines of a manned Taranis on steroids in terms of general shape/planform and performance, while the Northrop design was more of a big, manned X-47B.

It'll be interesting to see how that design changes as it goes through EMD.

a reply to: Barnalby

It might have been a polecat. Doubtful, but possible.

Or something else altogether.