Primary function: Air dominance fighter
         Official Nickname: Raptor
         User: U. S. Air Force
         Airframe Builders: Lockheed Martin (Marietta, GA, and Fort Worth, TX) and Boeing (Seattle, WA)
         Engine Builder: Pratt & Whitney (West Palm Beach, FL, and East Hartford, CT)
         Subcontractors: Approximately 240 firms in 37 states are considered major subcontractors; more than
         1,150 firms in 46 states and Puerto Rico, along with firms in 7 international countries make up the
         F-22/F119 subcontractor team.
         Personnel (approximate): Air Force System Program Office (SPO), 350; Lockheed Martin
         Aeronautical Systems, 1,100; Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, 1,500; Boeing 1,400; Pratt &
         Whitney, 1,000.
         Projected Employment: 15,000 in EMD and 27,000 in production.
         Power Plant: Two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines with afterburners and
         two-dimensional thrust-vectoring nozzles. Each engine is in the 35,000-pound thrust-class.
         Length: 62 feet, 1 inch
         Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches
         Height: 16 feet, 5 inches
         Speed: Mach 2 class
         Ceiling and Weight: Classified
         Armament: Internally, six radar-guided AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air
         Missiles (or two 1,000-pound class GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munitions in place of four of the
         AIM-120Cs) in main weapons bay; two heat-seeking AIM-9 Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missiles
         in side weapons bays (one in each bay); one M61A2 20-mm multi-barrel cannon; Four external stations
         can carry additional stores (weapons or fuel tanks)
         Crew: Pilot only
         First Flight: September 7, 1997
         Flight Test Aircraft: Nine
         Flight Test Program Length: 1997 until 2003 (Approximately 2,700 flights covering roughly 4,800
         test hours in EMD)
         Initial Operational Capability: Late 2005
         Planned Production: 339 aircraft between 1998 and 2013.
           Beddown Locations: Operational locations have not been announced; however, test and training F-22s
         will be assigned to Edwards AFB, CA. (Air Force Flight Test Center); Nellis AFB, NV. (Air Force
         Fighter Weapons School); and Tyndall AFB, FL., (325th Fighter Wing for F-22 pilot training)
         Aircraft It Will Replace: McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle.

         The industry team of Lockheed Martin and Boeing is working with the U. S. Air Force and Pratt &
         Whitney to develop the F-22 to replace the F-15 as America's front line air dominance fighter. The fast,
         agile, and stealthy F-22 will begin to take over the air dominance role first with Air Combat Command
         starting in 2004, assuring continued U. S. control of the skies during times of conflict well into the next
         century.
         Two contracts totaling $10.91 billion ($9.55 billion for the airframe and $1.36 billion for engines)
         were awarded for Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of the F-22 and F119 to the
         then Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics team and Pratt & Whitney in August 1991.
         Contract changes, including three Congressional budget cuts and subsequent rephases of the schedule
         since then have elevated the contract values to a total of $18.6 billion.
         Under the terms of the EMD contract, the F-22 team will complete the design of the aircraft, produce
         production tooling for the program, and build and test nine flightworthy aircraft and two ground test
         articles.
         The Critical Design Review (CDR) of the F-22 and the Initial Production Readiness Review (IPRR)
         of the F119 engine were completed in February 1995. The Air Force confirmed that the program was
         ready to proceed to fabrication and assembly of EMD aircraft.
         First flight of an EMD aircraft took place in September 1997. Low-rate initial production is scheduled
         to begin in 1999. The Air Force plans to procure 339 production F-22s, and production is scheduled to
         run through 2013.
         The F-22 teaming arrangement has allowed unprecedented industry cost sharing and has taken
         advantage of the different companies' strengths in advanced technology, production capability, and
         systems integration.
         Prior to its selection as winner of what was then known as the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF)
         competition, the F-22 team conducted a 54-month demonstration/validation (dem/val) program. The
         effort involved the design, construction, and flight testing of two YF-22 prototype aircraft. The dem/val
         phase of the program was completed in December 1990.
         Two prototype engine designs, the Pratt & Whitney YF119-PW-100 and the General Electric
         YF120-GE-100, also were developed and tested during the program. The Pratt & Whitney F119 was
         selected by the Air Force to power the F-22.
         Much of the dem/val work was performed at Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) in Burbank, Calif.;
         at General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems) in Fort Worth, Texas, at Boeing
         in Seattle, Wash. The prototypes were assembled in Lockheed's Palmdale, Calif., facility and made their
         maiden flight from there.
         Since that time, Lockheed Martin's program management and aircraft assembly operations have moved
         to Marietta, Ga., for the EMD and production phases.
 

         The F-22 is an air dominance fighter with much-improved capability over current Air Force aircraft.
         From the inception of the battle, the F-22's primary objective will be to establish absolute control of the
         skies through the conduct of counterair operations. The fighter also has an inherent precision ground
         attack capability.
         Threats that the F-15 will no longer be able to counter will be defeated by the lethal and survivable
         F-22, with its balance of increased speed and range, enhanced offensive and defensive avionics, and
         reduced observability. The F-22's design also emphasizes reliability and maintainability of systems.
         The F-22 is capable of carrying existing and planned medium and short range air-to-air missiles in
         internal bays. The F-22 will also have an internal 20-mm cannon and provisions for carrying precision
         ground attack weapons.
 

         In addition to greater lethality and survivability, the F-22 design calls for higher reliability,
         maintainability, and sortie generation rates than the aircraft it will replace. The design goal for all areas is a
         100 percent improvement in capability over the F-15 weapons system.
         The F-22 will provide pilots with a first-look, first-shot, first-kill capability through the use of reduced
         observables and advanced sensors. The F-22's avionics suite is a highly integrated system maximizing
         performance to allow the pilot to concentrate on the mission, rather than on managing the sensors as in
         current fighters.
 

         The Integrated Product Team (IPT) approach is used to develop the F-22. Under the IPT concept,
         each of the more than 80 permanent teams is completely responsible for its 'product' (i.e. avionics,
         cockpit, airframe, utilities and subsystems, etc.)-from engineering a part or system, controlling its cost
         and schedule, and insuring that it can be manufactured and supported once in use. The Air Force's F-22
         System Program Office (SPO) has teams that mirror the organization on the contractor side, improving
         communications across the team.
 

         Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems (Marietta, Ga.) is responsible for overseeing overall weapon
         system integration; developing and constructing the forward fuselage, including the cockpit and inlets; the
         vertical fins and stabilators; wing and empennage leading edges, ailerons, flaperons (a landing flap that
         acts in conjunction with ailerons); landing gear; and spearheading avionics architecture development and
         functional design, as well as displays, controls, the air data system, and apertures.
         Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems (Fort Worth, Tex.) is responsible for developing and
         constructing the mid-fuselage; armament; providing the tailored electronic warfare system, the integrated
         communications, navigation, and identification (CNI) system; stores management and inertial navigation
         systems; and development of the support system.
         Boeing is responsible for the wings and aft fuselage; structures in the aircraft for installation of the
         engines and nozzles, radar system development and testing, and auxiliary power unit; operation of the
         Avionics Integration Laboratory (AIL), and the 757 Avionics Flying Laboratory; and development of the
         training, life support, and fire protection systems.
         Pratt & Whitney is under separate contract from the Air Force to provide the F-22's engines. The
         F119-PW-100 is a new, higher thrust-to-weight engine that is designed for efficient supersonic operation
         without afterburner (called supercruise), and with increased durability over current engines. Pratt &
         Whitney will build 26 flightworthy engines for use in the EMD flight test program. Each F-22 will be
         powered by two F119 engines.
         The F-22 is 62 feet, 1 inch long, it has a wingspan of 44 feet 6 inches, and stands 16 feet, 5 inches
         tall. The F-22A is a single seat aircraft.