Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceBoeing Rolls Out First EMD T-7A Red Hawk Trainer
Boeing [BA] on Apr. 28 said that it unveiled the first T-7A Red Hawk trainer for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase at the company’s St. Louis plant. The […]
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Air ForceHASC Panel Leaders Surprised by USAF’s Planned Acceleration of Fighter Retirements in Next Five Years
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), the chair and vice chair, respectively, of the House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land forces panel, asked U.S. Air […]
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Air ForceUSAF Projects NGAD Unit Cost As ‘Multiple Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’
While the unit flyaway cost of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-22 was $155 million in today dollars and the unit flyaway cost of the company’s F-35A is running more than […]
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Air ForceE-7 Wedgetail to Replace Some AWACS Planes, U.S. Air Force Says
The U.S. Air Force has decided, “based on market research,” to replace some of its 31 Boeing [BA] E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes with the Boeing E-7 […]
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Air ForceSilicon Valley Firm Says It Received AFRL Contract to Test Autonomy Features for Air Force
Silicon Valley’s Reliable Robotics said on Apr. 25 that it has received a small business innovation research Phase II contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to design, develop […]
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Air ForceODIN Logistics Software for F-35 to Reach Field Next Year
The Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter is to begin operating a cloud-based, government-owned logistics software system next year. The F-35 program “is implementing a new strategy to replace the Autonomic […]
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Air ForceUnder 2021 Contract, U.S. Air Force Buys 3rd New BACN-Equipped E-11A
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) aerial networks division at Hanscom AFB, Mass., has bought a third Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft to serve as a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node […]
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Air ForceUSAF Plans Roll-Out of T-7A Red Hawk Next Week
The U.S. Air Force is planning to roll out its digitally engineered T-7A Red Hawk trainer in St. Louis next week. Boeing [BA] and Sweden’s Saab are the prime contractors […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNight Vision Advances May Make Their Way Into F-35, Army IVAS
Significant night vision advances over the next several years may filter into programs, such as the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 and the U.S. Army Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset, […]
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Air ForceNGAD ‘Relatively Successful,’ As Air Force Seeks to Build Upon It, Kendall Says
The U.S. Air Force wants to advance its classified Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) manned sixth generation fighter, each of which may operate with a handful of drones, Air Force […]