Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceF135 Engine Core Upgrade Passes Preliminary Design Review
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney said on July 15 that it has completed preliminary design review (PDR) on the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 […]
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Air ForceWork to Continue on Sentinel, As DoD/USAF Examine How to Restructure Program
Work on the U.S. Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC] is to go forward, as the service and DoD acquisition chief William LaPlante consider how to […]
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Business/FinancialCesiumAstro, Second Front Systems, and X-Bow Record Top Jumps in Startup Rankings
CesiumAstro Space & Defense Systems, Second Front Systems, and X-Bow Systems had the highest yearly jumps in the Silicon Valley Defense Group’s (SVDG) rankings of the top 100 venture capital-backed […]
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Air ForceACC Commander Looks Forward to Rapid CCA Fielding
U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC) at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., said this week that he believes that the service will field Collaborative […]
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Air ForceBAE Systems: Advanced Radar Warning Receivers for C-130Js Continue Production/Delivery
BAE Systems said on July 9 that it continues to deliver its AN/ALR-56M advanced radar warning receivers to the U.S. Air Force to protect C-130J transports by Lockheed Martin[LMT] under […]
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Air ForceSASC Wants F-35 Program to Submit Plan for Integration of Improved PTMS on Plane by 2029
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) wants insight from the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) on a timeline to compete and award a contract to build and integrate an upgraded […]
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Air ForceACC Commander Says He Expects NGAD Choice This Year
U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth “Cruiser” Wilsbach, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), said on July 10 that he still expects the service to make a Next Generation Air […]
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Air ForceSASC Wants Report on Possible Deployment of 450 Sentinels
While the Pentagon on July 8 announced a further cost overrun and development delay for the U.S. Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC], the Senate Armed […]
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Air ForceUSAF Sticks with GE, As Foreign Nations Consider F-15EX Buys with Pratt & Whitney Engines
While the U.S. Air Force is sticking with the General Electric [GE] F110-129 engine for the service’s F-15EX fighter by Boeing [BA], potential foreign buyers may want a possibly cheaper […]
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Air ForceSentinel Program Director Dismissed
On June 24, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. John Newberry, the head of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M., dismissed Air Force Col. Charles Clegg, the […]
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