Frank Wolfe
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Air ForceSNC Says Its Design for USAF SAOC Moving Forward
Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) said on Monday that it has completed another step in engineering and manufacturing development of the U.S. Air Force’s planned survivable airborne operations center (SAOC) by […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Asks for Input on Support for AC-130J Precision Strike Package
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s special operations forces, personnel recovery, and rotary division (AFLCMC/WIU) at Robins AFB, Ga., is surveying industry to determine its capacity to provide […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Targets September Next Year for ATLAS IOC
The U.S. Space Force said this week that it has informed Congress that September next year will mark initial operational capability (IOC) of the L3Harris [LHX] Advancing Tracking and Launch […]
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Air ForceAir Force Eyes Proposal to Improve Sustainment of FPS-117
In the next year, the U.S. Air Force may issue a five-year Advanced Range and Radar Array Key Instrument for Sustainment (ARRAKIS) solicitation to improve the performance of the Lockheed […]
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Air ForceMusk Comments on F-35 Receive Pushback
While Elon Musk said that the “F-35 design was broken at the requirements level because it was required to be too many things to too many people,” the U.S. Air […]
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Business/FinancialLockheed Martin Receives Nearly $870 Million in Long Lead Funding for F-35 Lot 20
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a nearly $870 million award for long-lead items and parts for production Lot 20 of the company’s F-35, DoD said in a Friday contracts announcement. […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Report Noted F-35 Deficiencies A Month Before Full-Rate Pentagon Go Ahead
The Pentagon said on March 12 that it had approved the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 for full-rate production–nine years after the fifth-generation fighter entered service. A month before the DoD […]
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Air ForceUSAF Awards Boeing Nearly $2.4 Billion KC-46A Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $2.4 billion contract for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers in Lot 11 of the buy, the Pentagon said in its contracts […]
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SpaceSpaceX’s Starshield Has Received Most Task Orders in $660 Million for Space Force pLEO Services So Far
Military forces’ demand for Proliferated low Earth orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what U.S. Space Force expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders–the majority […]
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SpaceSome GPS Launches Awaiting Vulcan Certification
The U.S. Space Force has launched six Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellites, and the company has been storing four GPS IIIs in Littleton, Colo. The 31-satellite GPS constellation “is […]
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