Long Range Strike-Bomber RFP Coming Next Fall

• US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced that an RFP for the USA’s next strategic bomber will be released “probably in the fall.” Lockheed Martin and Boeing have publicly announced their team twice, in January 2008 then with an October 2013 remarriage, while Northrop Grumman made its interest known in a more subdued way. Not much else is known, apart from the fact it’s one of the service’s top acquisition priorities, with fielding tentatively starting in about a decade.