Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceKendall: System Quality and Resilience More Important Than Force Structure and Lethality
The U.S. Air Force is focusing on system quality and resilience more than system numbers and lethality, as the service requests a record $49.2 billion in research and development in […]
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Air ForceThree Years and Counting, No Results Available from F-35A and A-10C Comparison Testing
U.S. Air Force officials told lawmakers last week that a report is out on the results of comparion testing between the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A and the A-10C close air […]
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Air ForceUSAF Addressing Link 16 Cryptographic Modernization Delay, Kendall Says
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the service has devoted funding in the last few months to rectify a delay in fielding Link 16 cryptographic modernization for aircraft […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force/Navy Could Spend $500 Million for Delivery of F-35 Parts Specifications
Pentagon officials have said that future sustainment of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 will require a mix of contractor maintenance and “organic” maintenance by the U.S. Air Force and Navy. […]
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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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Silicon 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 […]