After losing the Air Force's next-generation fighter contract to Boeing, Lockheed Martin hopes to fold sixth-generation tech into the F-35.
Air Force officials regret not getting data rights to the F-35, which has slowed repairs, and promised not to make the same mistake on the F-47.
The Air Force conducts regular tests of its Minuteman III ICBMs, as it looks for ways to bring costs under control for the successor Sentinel missile.
The Sentinel ICBM program is already alarmingly over budget, and trying to reuse 55-year-old Minuteman III silos would put it even further behind.
