Air Force
By Vivienne Machi
@VivienneMachi
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force last year identified $30 billion it had found over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) that could be freed ...
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force last year identified $30 billion it had found over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) that could be freed up from current programs to fund the service’s biggest technology needs. But when the fiscal year 2021 presidential budget request was released ...
Top Navy leadership Thursday told the House Armed Services Committee the 30-year shipbuilding plan is being delayed past the budget release so it can be integrated with the new integrated Force Structure Assessment (FSA) at the Secretary of Defense level. On Wednesday, House Armed Services ...
A critical component of the Air Force’s KC-46A aerial refueling tanker that has been caught up in a difficult development has made more progress in the past month than in the entire previous year, a sign the program is trending in the right direction, Air Force Acquisition Chief Will Roper told a ...
Navy leaders on Thursday admitted at a hearing that the FY 2021 shipbuilding budget request numbers slows the service’s goal of reaching 355 ships. The Navy’s FY ’21 shipbuilding request seeks eight battle force ships for $20 billion, down four ships and from $24 billion from the previous ...
PROMONTORY, Utah —Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday conducted a successful first test of the second stage motor for its OmegA launch vehicle, a critical step as the company prepares for the first certification flight in spring 2021. The OmegA rocket is Northrop Grumman’s offering for the ...
The Navy’s Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) granted the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) Milestone C, setting up low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the system, the office said Wednesday. The service said now it plans to exercise options to procure ...
The government’s funding request in fiscal year 2021 for border security technology favors new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tower systems that can autonomously detect illegal border crossing activity, the head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told a House budget panel on Thursday. The ...
