Air Force leaders on Monday talked about the need for the service’s capabilities to change and adapt in the face of a modernizing China, especially the need to spend money more efficiently.  Speaking during a panel discussion Monday during the Air Force Association’s 2021 Air, Space and Cyber ...

The Navy successfully conducted a two-missile flight test of unarmed life-extended Trident II (D5LE) missiles from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) on Sept. 17. This test was part of a Demonstration and Shakedown Operation, called DASO-31, that aimed to evaluate and ...

Any acceleration of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program would be on the order of months, not years, a top U.S. Air Force official said on Sept. 20. “Certainly, we have had people ask the question, ‘Can we accelerate Next Generation Air Dominance?'” Air Force Lt. Gen. ...

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is planning to test the amphibious capability of a Lockheed Martin [LMT] MC-130 in the second half of next year, as part of AFSOC’s examination into enhancing the command’s relevance in the Indo-Pacific region to counter China. “ ...

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, Utah, on Sept. 17 awarded Boeing [BA] a contract potentially worth more than $1.6 billion through 2039 for guidance repair of the company’s 400 Minuteman IIIs. “This contract will repair the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic ...

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report assessed the FY ‘22 Navy long-range shipbuilding plan would cost 10 to 43 percent more than recent shipbuilding budgets and the future force could reduce the fleet’s Vertical Launch System (VLS) missile capacity.  In June, the Navy submitted ...