Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceCCA Builders Believe Commercial Engines Will Reap Big Savings
AURORA, Colo.—General Atomics and Anduril Industries believe the use of commercial engines for their Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) will lead to significant savings, as the U.S. Air Force moves toward […]
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SpaceNTS-3 May Launch This Year on Vulcan Centaur
AURORA, Colo.–More than two years after the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) had planned to launch the L3Harris Technologies‘ [LHX] Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3), it may get into orbit this […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Expects GPS OCX Fielding Decision This Year
AURORA, Colo.–The U.S. Space Force expects Ready to Transition to Operations (RTO) and fielding decisions this year on RTX‘s [RTX] Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX). “What […]
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Air ForceUSAF Will Likely Fare Well in Budget Reconciliation, Service Official Says
AURORA, Colo.–The U.S. Air Force will likely fare “extremely well” in a GOP budget reconciliation bill, a service official suggested on Tuesday at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Warfare […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyGambit and Fury CCA Offerings Get USAF Designations; Flights on Track for This Summer
AURORA, Colo.–The U.S. Air Force has bestowed “mission design series” (MDS) designations on its two Increment 1 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes. The General Atomics Gambit offering is the YFQ-42A […]
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Air ForceLonger Term Contracts Would Ease Production Surge, if Required for F-35, Lockheed Martin Official Says
AURORA, Colo.–If the balloon goes up or if significant new orders for the F-35 materialize near-term, could Lockheed Martin [LMT] ramp up its annual global production of the fighter above […]
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SpaceLead Aviation Platform for MGUE Increment 1 Changed from B-2 to Gray Eagle
AURORA, Colo.–Last fall, U.S. Space Force decided to switch the lead platform for the Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 1 aviation card from the Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth […]
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Air ForceCMMT Offering by Lockheed Martin to Serve as Subsonic Cruise Missile, Drone or Sensor
AURORA, Colo.—Lockheed Martin [LMT] is developing the Common Multi-Mission Truck System (CMMT–“comet”)–what could serve as a drone, sensor, or a high-subsonic cruise missile that is to cost $150,000 per unit […]
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Air ForceCollins Aerospace: Proposed EPACS System for F-35 Achieves Technology Readiness Level 6
RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Friday that its Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS)–the company’s proposed replacement for the F-35 fighter’s current Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS)–has achieved […]
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SpacePentagon Says SDA Meeting Minimum Viable Product, But GAO Notes Problems
DoD says that the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) has met the “minimum viable product” (MVP) standard for the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 0 Transport Layer […]
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