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Marc Selinger
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Air ForceF-35 Program Office, Contractor To Discuss Fighter Jet’s Deficiencies
The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II joint program office (JPO) plans to hold a “consideration summit” with prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] in the “spring-summer timeframe” to discuss how to […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program To Update Older Jets To Boost Reliability
The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II joint program office plans to modify more than 200 early-production jets to bring them up to newer configurations, the program’s leader said Feb. 28. […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program To Update Older Jets To Boost Reliability
The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II joint program office plans to modify more than 200 early-production jets to bring them up to newer configurations, the program’s leader said Feb. 28. […]
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Air ForceDoD Nears Hiring Outside Firm To Study Possible Space Department
The Pentagon is close to picking an outside firm to write a roadmap for the possible creation of a military space department, a key lawmaker said Feb. 28. The fiscal year 2018 defense authorization […]
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Air ForceAir Force Ends Grounding Of T-6A Trainer Planes
The U.S. Air Force, which grounded its fleet of T-6A trainer aircraft almost four weeks ago due to a rise in physiological episodes (PEs), announced Feb. 27 that the planes […]
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Air ForceBoeing, White House Reach $3.9 Billion Deal To Build New Air Force One
Boeing [BA] has reached a $3.9 billion agreement with the White House to develop and build two new aircraft to replace the Air Force One presidential jets. The informal deal […]
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Air ForceAir Force Leaders Push For More Aggressive Role In Space
ORLANDO, Fla. – At an Air Force Association (AFA) symposium last week that was supposed to be devoted to air warfare, U.S. Air Force leaders spent part of their time […]
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UncategorizedNASA Aims To Send Humans To Moon By Late 2020s
NASA, which recently was told by the Trump administration to return humans to the Moon’s surface, expects to achieve that goal by the “latter part” of the 2020s, acting Administrator […]
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FAA To Revamp Licensing For Commercial Space Launches
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to take a series of steps to simplify and speed up its “somewhat rusty” licensing process for commercial space launches, Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen said […]
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Air ForceAFSOC’s Laser Gunship Demo Slowed By Budget Turmoil
ORLANDO, Fla. — Budget uncertainty has slowed efforts by U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to test a solid-state laser weapon on an AC-130 gunship, according to the command’s […]