Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), said on Feb. 26 that he is not confident that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 will reach the $25,000 cost-per-flying hour goal by 2025. “In terms of confidence level of getting to $25,000 by 2025, I’m not brimming with ...

After failing to get legislation passed into law last year requiring certain private sector entities to disclose that they’ve been a victim of a cyber incident, Democrats and Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee plan to resurrect a bill on incident reporting and others are working ...

The U.S. Space Force’s Protected Anti-jam Tactical Satellite Communications (PATS) program is a marquee science, technology and innovation (ST&I) effort for the Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calf. “A great example of this unified approach on ...

Washington-based launch company Blue Origin has pushed the debut launch of its New Glenn rocket back to the fourth quarter of 2022. The company said the decision was made after theU.S. Space Force passed over the New Glenn and picked ULA and SpaceX‘s rockets for the National Security ...

The U.S. Navy and Japan Self-Defense Force are undertaking the computer-based Resilient Shield 2021 missile defense exercise from Feb. 22-26 in Japan, the Navy said Feb. 22. Resilient Shield is an annual “computer-based Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint” (FST-J) exercise focused on ballistic ...

The Biden administration’s fiscal year 2022 budget recommendation to Congress will be delayed and there isn’t “an exact timeline” yet on when the request will be made, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday. The budget request typically goes to Congress in early February ...