Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceAllvin: F-47 Development ‘Can Come at the Speed of Software, not Hardware’
The U.S. Air Force has more control over the development of the Boeing [BA] F-47 fighter than the service has had for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II, Air […]
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Air ForceUSAF, Anduril, General Atomics Market CCA
While U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Allvin posted on X on May 1 that the two Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes–Anduril Industries‘ YFQ-44A Fury and General Atomics‘ […]
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Air ForceUSAF Cites ‘Design, Production, and Installation Cost Increases’ for B-52 RMP Breach
The U.S. Air Force B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) has exceeded the 15 percent significant unit cost increase threshold “due to design, production, and installation cost increases,” the Air Force […]
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Air ForceAs USAF Looks to Future Requirements for CCA Radars, Raytheon Announces First Flight of PhantomStrike
RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon said this month that its PhantomStrike radar had a first flight test on the Raytheon Multi-Program Testbed (MPT) aircraft in Ontario, Calif. The MPT–known as “Voodoo One” […]
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SpaceSpace Systems Command Places Nearly $218 Million Delivery Order with Palantir
Palantir [PLTR] has won a nearly $218 million delivery order from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) under a data software services umbrella contract–the Space C2 Data Platform, the […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Examining Way Ahead for COSMOS
The U.S. Space Force is examining whether to move ahead on a possible program for Commercial and Military Satellite Communications Operations Support (COSMOS) for Space Operations Command and Schriever Space […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Analyzing Advantages/Trade-Offs of In-Space Refueling
While the U.S. Space Force’s first Space Warfighting Framework, released last month, highlights the importance of satellite maneuver to complicate adversary surveillance and targeting, in-space refueling to ease such maneuver […]
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SpaceGeosynchronous Orbit Awareness System to Leverage Commercial Parts and Construction
The U.S. Space Force found that reducing requirements on a geosynchronous orbit awareness system would reduce construction time by one-third and cost by more than one-half, a service official said […]
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Missile DefenseReed Looks to Prevent Golden Dome ‘Slush Fund,’ Design of Detection/Comms Systems Crucial
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said on Tuesday that despite rumblings about the future U.S. Golden Dome missile shield being under construction, the program is still in its early stages and […]
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Air ForcePrototype CCA Range to Be Greater Than F-35A and F-22
The range of the U.S. Air Force’s prototype autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is to be at least 700 nautical miles–greater than the 590 nautical mile range of the Air […]
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