Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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PentagonAAR Corp. Settles False Claims Act Investigation by DOJ for $11 Million
The Wood Dale, Illinois-based AAR Corp [AIR] and its Melbourne, Fla.-subsidiary, AAR Airlift Group Inc., have agreed to pay the federal goverment more than $11 million after a False Claims […]
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Air ForceAir Combat Command Targeting October for Completion of Campaign Plan
As the U.S. Air Force continues to retool to counter the “near peer” threats of China and Russia, Air Combat Command (ACC) is targeting October for completing its campaign plan […]
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S. Air Force Awards Raytheon $2 Billion EMD Contract for LRSO
The U.S. Air Force on July 1 awarded Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] missiles and defense division in Tucson, Ariz. a $2 billion cost plus contract with performance incentives for the engineering […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Presses Staff to Analyze Needed Capabilities, Not Numbers
While the U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2022 budget request proposes retiring 201 aircraft, including two squadrons of F-15C/Ds, to help pay for a requested $2.2 billion increase in research and […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySkyborg Program Conducts Another Test of Autonomy System on Different Drone
The U.S. Air Force’s Skyborg program–one of four service Vanguard efforts–conducted a two hour and thirty minute flight test on June 24 of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNorthrop Grumman Delivers Spacecraft Bus to L3Harris for NTS-3 Air Force Vanguard Program
Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered its ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus to L3Harris Technologies [LHX] in Palm Bay, Fla. in preparation for the planned fall 2023 launch of the National Technology Satellite-3 […]
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SpaceSpace Development Agency Launches First Two Satellite Missions
The Space Development Agency (SDA) launched its first two satellite missions on June 30–two Astro Orbital-built Mandrake II cube satellites with an SA Photonics payload, two General Atomics Laser Interconnect Networking Communications System (LINCS) […]
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InternationalSwitzerland to Buy 36 F-35As for $5.5 Billion
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has won the fighter competition to replace Switzerland’s aging F-5E/F Tiger IIs and F/A-18C/Ds with 36 of the company’s F-35As for nearly $5.5 billion. Under consideration in […]
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Air ForceHouse Defense Appropriators Advise Restart of Air Force MQ-9 Buy, Add Six Reapers
While the U.S. Air Force requested no funding for General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones in fiscal 2022, the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel’s (HAC-D) version of the FY 2022 Defense […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force: Automated Flight Safety System to Allow More Rapid Launches
A SpaceX Automated Flight Safety System (AFSS) for the company’s Falcon 9 rockets permitted three launches within 11 days of one another in May and early June, U.S. Space Force […]