{"id":17393,"date":"2015-02-06T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2015\/02\/06\/northrop-developing-new-design-for-t-x\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:45:22","slug":"northrop-developing-new-design-for-t-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2015\/02\/06\/northrop-developing-new-design-for-t-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Developing New Design for T-X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman has decided to produce a new, clean-sheet design for the US Air Force&#8217;s T-X trainer replacement competition, the company tells Defense News.<br\/><br\/>The move is an about-face after four years of offering an off-the-shelf design in the form of BAE&#8217;s Hawk training system.<br\/><br\/>The decision to switch from a well-known system to a new design began germinating two years ago, as the Air Force started making the requirements for T-X more clear to <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">the <\/span>\u200bindustry, <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">competitors, <\/span>\u200bsaid Marc Lindsley, Northrop&#8217;s T-X program director. <br\/><br\/>During that time, the company was still planning to offer <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">on offering <\/span>\u200bthe Hawk. In recent months, however, the company decided a new design would best meet the technical and affordability requirements. <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">from the service would be best met with a new design.<\/span>\u200b<br\/><br\/>Northrop informed the Air Force of its<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">their<\/span>\u200b plan &#8220;a few&#8221; months back, Lindsley said, adding that there was no<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">t<\/span>\u200b specific requirement <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">from the service <\/span>\u200bthat drove the decision but rather an &#8220;aggregate&#8221; of inputs from the service<br\/><br\/>&#8220;[After] the open dialogue with industry, the understanding [of what] the requirements and capabilities are, and what the costs are of those requirements, we have an opportunity with this clean-sheet design to give them exactly what they want, and that&#8217;s what we want to do,&#8221; Lindsley said.<br\/><br\/>The new design is in the assembly stage, with a first flight expected sometime this year. Northrop declined to give a more detailed timetable on when that would be, but companies always like to make a splash around either the Paris Air Show in June or the Air Force Association&#8217;s annual convention in September. <br\/><br\/>The T-X program is intended to replace the Air Force&#8217;s fleet of T-38 training aircraft with a more highly advanced jet capable of training pilots for use in fifth-generation fighters like the F-22 and F-35. The service plans on issuing an RFP on the program in the fourth quarter of fiscal <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">year <\/span>\u200b2016, with a projected contract award in the fall of 2017.<br\/><br\/>The service signaled its intention to move ahead with T-X in its fiscal 2016 budget request, which earmarked $11.4 million for research-and-development funding. That number escalates to $12.2 million in fiscal 2017, then jumps up to $107.2 million in 2018, $262.8 million in 2019 and $275.9 million in 2020. <br\/><br\/>Until Northrop&#8217;s announcement, the only clean-sheet design expected in the T-X competition was from a team of Boeing and Saab. The new designs will go up against a pair of legacy trainers in the form of Lockheed Martin&#8217;s offering of Korean Aerospace Industries&#8217; T-50, and the T-100, a collaboration between General Dynamics and Italy&#8217;s Alenia Aermacchi based on the latter&#8217;s M-346 design. Textron AirLand is also planning to enter a trainer variant of its new Scorpion jet in the competition.<br\/><br\/>Last summer, when the world still believed Northrop was offering the Hawk, the company was officially named the prime on the team. Lindsley characterized that decision as &#8220;part of the process&#8221; toward moving to a clean-sheet design, but said the plan is to keep the same team of partners as with the Hawk. <br\/><br\/>The company is in discussions with BAE about including the British company&#8217;s core training system, which simulates radar threats and other training requirements, as the center of the new jet&#8217;s internal systems. BAE would also assist on production and design. L-3, meanwhile, will continue to provide <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">in its role as the provider of <\/span>\u200bground training systems such as simulators and classroom activities. <br\/><br\/>Lindsley added that &#8220;for now,&#8221; the first prototype will use a General Electric engine, but declined to go into details on how <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">what <\/span>\u200ba full fleet of Northrop T-X planes would be powered. <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">by.<\/span>\u200b<br\/><br\/>One benefit of switching to a clean-sheet design is bringing another partner into the process. Northrop signed an exclusive agreement with Detroit-based KUKA Systems <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">Inc.<\/span>\u200b in 2012 to help design a production line for the then-expected Hawk offering. KUKA designed the company&#8217;s F-35 Palmdale, California, production line, which was named 2013 &#8220;Assembly Plant of the Year&#8221; by Assembly Magazine.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;We&#8217;re designing producability into our airplane, right from the ground floor. They&#8217;re sitting right alongside the aircraft design engineers,&#8221; Lindsley said. &#8220;By having them on the ground floor you don&#8217;t have to go back and tweak your design for how you would automate or how to make it better for access panels for maintenance.<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">&#8220;<\/span>\u200b<br\/><br\/>&#8220;You&#8217;re also designing the aircraft with modern manufacturing capabilities and growth potential, because let&#8217;s keep in mind that we&#8217;re proposing an aircraft that&#8217;s replacing one that&#8217;s been flying for 50 years,&#8221; Lindsley added. <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">noting that <\/span>\u200bBaking in the ability to easily upgrade and modify the design will be important if this T-X design is to last for several decades. <br\/><br\/>Perhaps the most important partner in this program will be Scaled Composites. Although Northrop bought Scaled in 2007, Scaled operates semi-autonomously as a rapid prototyping house, working for a number of programs both within and outside Northrop&#8217;s portfolio. The aircraft is being designed at Scaled&#8217;s facility in Mojave, California. <br\/><br\/>&#8220;Scaled takes their rapid prototyping design and development capability, combines it with the Northrop capability \u2026 and we&#8217;re getting synergy out of that combined effort between the two organizations,&#8221; Lindsley said.<br\/><br\/>A spokesman for the company said no decision has been made on where the T-X could be produced, but the two likely spots would be Northrop&#8217;s Manufacturing Centers of Excellence, one in St. Augustine, Florida, and the other in Palmdale, home <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">, California. The latter is also home <\/span>\u200bto the KUKA-designed F-35 line.<br\/><br\/>As for international sales, Lindsley said the company would be open to considering <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">looking to <\/span>\u200bthat in the future, but <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">said <\/span>\u200ball the focus right now is on winning the T-X competition. <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">first.<\/span>\u200b<br\/><br\/>For more on Northrop&#8217;s new offering, check out Monday&#8217;s edition of Defense News. <br\/><br\/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:amehta@defensenews.com\">amehta@defensenews.com<\/a><br\/><br\/>Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/AaronMehta\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronMehta\">@AaronMehta<\/a><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman has decided to produce a new, clean-sheet design for the Air Force&#8217;s T-X trainer replacement competition, the company tells Defense 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