Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: October 26, 2017
Matt Donovan, Air Force undersecretary, has said the services $2 billion funding request for the B-21 bomber aircraft program for fiscal year 2018 would be spent on software development and staffing efforts at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg Technology reported Wednesday.
The military branch will also allocate part of the requested funds to the production of engineering drawings for the aircrafts clean-sheet design, Donovan said in a Tuesday interview.
He noted that Northrops work on the bomber is generally on track and within the windows of expected progress that weve expected at this point, the report added.
The Air Force selected Northrop in October 2015 for the potential $80 billion contract to build at least 100 B-21 units.
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