Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Announces Completion of First Qualification Test of Sentinel Stage-Two Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Tuesday that the company and the U.S. Air Force completed the first qualification test of a stage-two solid rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel Intercontinental […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Announces Up to $4 Billion in Awards for PTS-G
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is awarding contracts worth up to $4 billion for the Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) program to Boeing [BA], Northrop Grumman [NOC], Viasat [VSAT], […]
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Air ForceUSAF Command and Control Head Urges Acceleration of TOC-L Effort
Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] said last week that the U.S. Air Force had awarded the company a $315 million contract for their collaboration on Phase II of a prototype Tactical […]
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SpaceLaunch of Eighth X-37B Mission Planned for Aug. 21
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing [BA] X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.–an eighth X-37B mission […]
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Air ForceGAO Finds DoD Has Not Identified Lower-Tier Suppliers; Discloses DoD Looked Into Chinese Robotic Arms on F-35 Assembly Line
An omniscient portrait of the more than 200,000 DoD suppliers to spot suspicious foreign companies is not on the books, as lower tier suppliers remain hidden–a cloaking helped by the […]
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Air ForceSenate GOP Spread Puts Lohmeier Over the Top
On a 52 to 46 party line vote on Thursday, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Matthew Lohmeier as the 29th Undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force–the service’s number two civilian. Sens. […]
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Air ForceScout Space’s Owl Sensor to Aid U.S. Space Force in Blue Origin Launch Next Spring
Scout Space‘s Owl sensor is to aid U.S. Space Force’s space domain awareness (SDA) mission in a launch next spring of the first Blue Ring maneuverable spacecraft by Blue Origin, […]
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CongressRight to Repair Provisions in Senate and House Defense Authorization Bills
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and House Armed Services Committee (HASC) versions of their respective fiscal 2026 defense authorization bills contain “right to repair” provisions aimed at a reduction […]
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Air ForceSenate Wants Report from Air Force on Possible Concurrent Construction of Sentinel Silos
The Senate wants the U.S. Air Force to consider simultaneous construction of silos for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel for the three missile wings–the 90th at F.E. Warren AFB, […]
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Air ForceHASC Wants USAF to Lay Out Plan for Full-Scale Production of CCA Increment 1
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the U.S. Air Force to lay out its plan for full- scale production of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1. “The committee expects […]