Frank Wolfe
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SpaceDAF Space Acquisition Chief Looking to Draw Lessons From Munitions MYPs for Launch
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The Department of the Air Force is examining multi-year procurement (MYP) and flexible mission rockets as ways to boost launch capacity, in addition to the department’s consideration of […]
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Air ForceDesign for Ground Support of Sentinel ‘Has Really Turned the Corner’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The ground support segment for the future LGM-35A intercontinental ballistic missile by Northrop Grumman [NOC] “has really turned the corner,” U.S. Air Force Gen. Dale White, the direct […]
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Air ForceTwo AGM-190As Fired Recently in AFRICOM, LRIP for 45 Underway
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) recently fired two ramp-launched Leidos [LDOS] AGM-190A Havoc Spear small cruise missiles in combat strikes from an AC-130J gunship against ground targets […]
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Air ForceUSAF Discussing CCA, Increment 2 Attributes
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is discussing requirements for Increment 2 of the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. “We’re going through some thought machinations about what should Inc […]
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SpaceMeink: U.S. Has Orbital Space Weapons, SB-AMTI To Launch This Month, 500 CCAs by 2032
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The United States has orbital space weapons, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said on Monday. “What’s becoming even more important as we move forward is sensing and command […]
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Air ForceSkunk Works Plans First Flight of Vectis Prototype By End of Next Year
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk Works division plans to fly a Vectis drone prototype by the end of next year and to build another four aircraft to accelerate development and the […]
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Pentagon Wants AI System to Understand and Predict Space Threats
The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking for domestic and foreign company proposals for an artificial intelligence (AI) system to understand and predict space threats. “Today’s space […]
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Air ForceUSAF Forecasts Big Dollar Demand In Next Decade for F-15EXs
The U.S. Air Force is projecting a big dollar demand in the next decade for the service’s F-15EX Eagle II fighter by Boeing [BA] and for modifications to existing F-15s […]
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SpaceTwo Task Order Awards Notched By Lockheed Martin for GPS Ground Segment
In April, the Pentagon canceled the previously planned GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) by RTX [RTX] in favor of upgrades to the existing Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP) by […]
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Pentagon‘Experimentation Fatigue’ Cited As Issue for Industry and Pentagon
Speakers at a defense forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday cited “experimentation fatigue” as an issue for both industry and the Pentagon, as the military presses for rapid fielding of […]