The Air Force and Boeing [BA] announced April 2 that they have agreed upon a solution to fix the remote vision system on the KC-46A Pegasus, in the hopes of resolving one of the tanker program’s most critical deficiencies. The agreement, which was signed Thursday and first reported by Defense ...
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The Pentagon on Wednesday released its fourth and final proposal request for its initial 5G pilot programs, seeking prototypes for dynamic spectrum sharing projects at Hill Air Force Base and the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) in Utah. The latest Request for Prototype Proposals (RPP) ...
The Air Force is ready to begin procuring new attritable aircraft at higher volumes under its “Skyborg” test and experimentation program, the service’s top acquisition official said March 27. Since early 2019, the service has been performing tests and evaluations with a Kratos [KTOS]-made ...
The Air Force’s next Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) technology demo may have been pushed back two months due to COVID-19-related precautions, but the service may use some of the systems in development to help its personnel work while sheltered-in-place. The service is working hard to ...
Defense acquisition is in “uncharted territory” as the world reacts to the COVID-19 coronavirus, and yet little disruption entered Air Force acquisition programs due to innovative efforts to work around new travel and work restrictions, the service’s acquisition leader said March 23. “As we ...
The Pentagon has completed a successful flight test of its hypersonic weapon glide body, a key milestone as the department looks to field a hypersonic weapon in the early-to-mid 2020s. The Army and Navy jointly conducted the launch of Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) from the Pacific Missile ...
