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Air ForceDoD Studying Whether Air Force Needs More Than 100 New Bombers
Studies led by the Department of Defense are exploring whether the Air Force needs more than the 100 new bombers it currently plans to buy, according to service officials. While […]
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UncategorizedHASC Chairman Aims To Ease Barriers To Arms Sales
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is exploring ways to make it easier for the United States to sell military equipment to allies, the panel’s chairman said May 22. Lessening […]
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SpaceRocket Lab Completes First Test Launch Of Electron Rocket
Rocket Lab, a new entrant to the space-access market, conducted the first flight test of its ground-launched Electron rocket May 25. During the test, the two-stage, 17-meter-high rocket lifted off […]
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Air ForceBoeing Protests Lack Of Competition For Air Force’s Compass Call Replacement
Boeing [BA] is protesting the U.S. Air Force’s decision to forego a competition when it picked L3 Technologies [LLL] to provide a replacement for the EC-130H Compass Call electronic-attack aircraft. […]
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Air ForceAir Force’s Troubled GPS Ground System Getting More Scrutiny
The Pentagon is closely monitoring the future ground control system for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to ensure the long-troubled program remains on a road to recovery, […]
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SpaceDARPA Taps Boeing To Build Experimental Spaceplane
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked Boeing [BA] over two other companies to design, build and test an unmanned, reusable spaceplane that could deploy small satellites, […]
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Air Force Lab Unveils Counter-Drone Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on May 18 unveiled two technology efforts it is working on to disrupt and capture small, hostile drones. The first system, or spiral, which […]
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Air ForceAir Force Budget Boosts B-21 Bomber, Long Range Standoff Weapon
The Air Force’s fiscal year 2018 budget request contains billions of dollars to ramp up development work on several major new aviation and missile programs, including the B-21 bomber and […]
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Air ForceAir Force Budget Boosts B-21 Bomber, Long Range Standoff Weapon
The Air Force’s fiscal year 2018 budget request contains billions of dollars to ramp up development work on several major new aviation and missile programs, including the B-21 bomber and […]
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Air ForceU.S.-Australian Hypersonics Program Nears Next Flight Test
The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program, a U.S.-Australian effort to improve understanding of high-speed flight, plans to conduct its next flight test “in the next couple months,” according […]