Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air Force‘We’re Ready to Go Now,’ Honeywell Official Says of Company Offer to Upgrade F-35 PTMS
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The F-35 Joint Program Office and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney have contacted Honeywell [HON] about its Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Expects to Make Skyborg Program of Record in Fiscal 2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force plans to make Skyborg–one of the service’s original Vanguard research and development efforts–a program of record in fiscal 2024, and for the Kratos [KTOS] […]
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Air ForceCCA Classification Partially Due to Effort to Protect Potential Vendors from Cyberattacks
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–While the U.S. Air Force has budgeted $522 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) in fiscal 2024 and discussed the program in fairly broad terms, the future CCA […]
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Air ForceUSAF and Northrop Grumman: B-21 Raider Still On Track for First Flight This Year
First flight of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider is still a go for this year, the U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman said on Sept. 13. Six B-21s have […]
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Air ForceAdaptive Airborne Enterprise Top Acquisition Priority for AFSOC
The Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) is the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) top acquisition priority, as the command seeks to move beyond its current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance […]
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Air ForceUSAF ‘Very Opposed’ to HASC Cost Targets for CCA
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of a fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill would put the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in three cost target categories […]
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Air ForceVan Ovost: Logistics C2 Included in Global Information Dominance Experiment
Military planners are starting to include logistics command and control in the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, a top commander said on Sept. 11. U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDelays in Certification of ULA Vulcan Centaur V Will Not Result in Loss of ULA Launches
Delays in the test flight certification of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket’s Centaur V upper stage will not result in any extra launches for SpaceX for the U.S. […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Addressing F135 NMC Rate Due to Engine Maintenance
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said that it is addressing a higher than desired non-mission capable (NMC) rate for maintenance of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] fighter’s F135 engine by […]
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Air ForceFirst Delivery of F-35 with TR-3 Expected Between April and June Next Year
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said in an 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Sept. 6 that the company expects to deliver the first F-35 in a Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) […]
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