Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceF-35 Unit Cost or Lower a Target for Manned NGAD, Kendall Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–In the past, the U.S. Air Force has estimated a unit cost of several hundred million dollars for the manned Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD), but Air […]
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Air ForceU.S. State Department Approves $7.2 Billion F-35 FMS for Romania; $4.1 Billion KC-46 FMS for Japan
The U.S. State Department has approved a $7.2 billion foreign military sale (FMS) to Romania of 32 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A fighters and a $4.1 billion FMS to Japan of […]
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SpaceCongressional Appropriators Cut Epoch 1 Missile Warning/Missile Tracking to Account for Termination of RTX Contract
House and Senate appropriators are advising cutting the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC)’s Missile Warning/Missile Tracking Epoch 1 program for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)–also known as Missile Track […]
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Air ForceImages from Space for Maven Depend on Analysis of Tiny Field of View
Images from space of objects and human patterns of behavior depend on the analysis of tiny fields of view to provide targeting insights to military commanders under Maven, Vice Adm. […]
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CongressKelly and Cramer Found Senate Defense Modernization Caucus
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s airland panel, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have formed the Senate Defense Modernization Caucus as a counterpart to the […]
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Air ForceU.S. Space Force Wants Congressional Restoration of ‘Resiliency’ Funding in Fiscal 2025
The U.S. Space Force wants the final fiscal 2025 defense appropriations bill to protect the service’s accounts for “resilient architecture,” denoting improved navigation satellites and multi-orbit missile warning and communications […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyU.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Says It’s Using $40 Million Congressional Add to Improve COCOM Use of Commercial Imagery
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (USSF SSC) said that it is using a $40 million congressional add for Tactical, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TacSRT) in fiscal 2024 to […]
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Air ForceFull-Scale CCA Models to Appear at AFA Conference Next Week
Attendees of next week’s Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space and Cyber conference in National Harbor, Md., may get a view of two full-scale models for the U.S. […]
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SpaceJustification and Approval for Northrop Grumman DARC Sites 2 and 3 Signed
On Monday, the Department of the Air Force posted what it said was a signed justification and approval (J&A) for Northrop Grumman [NOC]’s Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) radar […]
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InternationalU.S. State Department Approves $133 Million in AMRAAM FMS to Singapore
The U.S. State Department has approved a foreign military sale of 54 RTX [RTX] AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) and related equipment for $133 million, the Defense Security […]