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Marc Selinger
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Air ForceAir Force To Study Replacement Options For Command And ISR Planes
ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force is gearing up to launch a study this summer on options for replacing its fleets of large command-and-control (C2) and intelligence, surveillance and […]
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SpaceFAA 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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SpaceNASA 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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Air ForceAir Force Plans To Proceed With Purchasing Light-Attack Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force intends to rapidly buy a fleet of light-attack aircraft after it conducts a second round of experiments with such planes later this year, service Secretary Heather […]
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Air ForceAir Force Plans To Proceed With Purchasing Light-Attack Aircraft
The U.S. Air Force intends to rapidly buy a fleet of light-attack aircraft after it conducts a second round of experiments with such planes later this year, service Secretary Heather […]
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CongressSenate OKs Griffin To Lead DoD’s New Research And Engineering Shop
The Senate confirmed several national security nominations by voice vote late Feb. 15, including former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin to the new job of undersecretary of defense for research and engineering […]
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Air ForceNORTHCOM Chief Says She Will Guard Against Overusing Upgraded F-16s
With the U.S. Air National Guard planning to equip less than a fourth of its F-16s with new radars, a key homeland defense official said Feb. 15 that she will […]
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Air ForceSikorsky Protests Air Force’s Huey Replacement Program
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin [LMT] company, has filed a pre-contract-award protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the Air Force’s UH-1N Huey replacement program, saying the service expects the […]
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Air ForceCompetition For JSTARS Replacement Plane Continues As Air Force, Hill Duel Over Proposal To End Program
The U.S. Air Force, which recently announced plans to nix a replacement for its aging E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance aircraft, is not pulling the plug on the program just yet. Facing […]
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Competition For JSTARS Replacement Plane Continues As Air Force, Hill Duel Over Proposal To End Program
The U.S. Air Force, which recently announced plans to nix a replacement for its aging E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance aircraft, is not pulling the plug on the program just yet. Facing […]