Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceUSAF And Northrop Grumman Break Ground On Sentinel Prototype Silo
AURORA, Colo.–On Feb. 13, the U.S. Air Force broke ground on a prototype silo for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM at the company’s Promontory, Utah, site, officials […]
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Air ForceRolls-Royce F130 Engine For B-52 Passes Altitude And Operability Testing, Company Says
AURORA, Colo.—Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday that it has completed altitude and operability testing for the company’s F130 engine as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) […]
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Air ForceUSAF Primed To Buy Large Number Of KC-46s In FY 2027; No Look At KC-390
AURORA, Colo.–As the Air Force aims to correct Category 1 deficiencies on the Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker, the service is poised to buy a large number in the fiscal […]
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Air ForceAir Force Starts Inert, Captive Carry Weapons Testing For CCA
AURORA, Colo.–The Air Force has begun inert, captive carry weapons testing for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program featuring an Increment 1 competition this year between General Atomics‘ YFQ-42A Dark […]
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Air ForcePentagon Reconciliation Funding Has $4.5 Billion For B-21, As Northrop Grumman And Air Force Agree To Acceleration
AURORA, Colo.–The Pentagon’s $150.5 billion in fiscal 2026 reconciliation funding has $4.5 billion to accelerate production of the U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber by Northrop Grumman [NOC], and […]
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SpaceGPS-IIIF Will Change “Calculus” Of Adversaries Seeking To Counter GPS, Lockheed Martin Official Says
AURORA, Colo.–While analysts have often spoken of the near certainty of sophisticated and off-the-shelf jamming and spoofing of GPS in a future conflict in which the United States engages, Lockheed […]
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Air ForceUSAF Test Pilot School And Lockheed Martin Collaborate On Automatic SAM Avoidance
AURORA, Colo.–The Air Force Test Pilot School and Lockheed Martin [LMT] Skunk Works are collaborating this year on a “Have Remy” Test Management Project to enable fighter aircraft to use […]
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Congress“Not Sure How They Get To Where They Wanna Be,” Calvert Says of $1.5 Trillion Defense Topline Proposal
As the federal government enters a third week of tardiness in a fiscal 2027 budget release, a big question is how the Pentagon will be able to spend $500 billion […]
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Air ForceBAE Systems To Develop 300 Prototypes For AGR-20F Upgrades Against Drone Swarms
In response to a U.S. Central Command and Air Forces Central Joint Urgent Operational Need (JUON) in August 2024, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) armament directorate at Eglin […]
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Air ForceEmbraer Pledges $500 Million Investment In U.S. Production Of KC-390, If Sizeable Domestic Order Placed
MELBOURNE, Fla.—In 2024, L3Harris Technologies [LHX] backed out of a partnership begun two years earlier to develop a refueling boom for Embraer’s [EMBJ] KC-390 tanker, but on Thursday Northrop Grumman […]