The U.S. Air Force plans to hold public hearings next month on a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) associated with deciding whether Ellsworth AFB, S.D., or Dyess AFB, Texas, will be the first bed down location for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The service is to ...
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The General Atomics‘ RG Mk1 Protector drone, the fourth MQ-9B SkyGuardian air vehicle, achieved first flight on Sept. 25, the company said, as it awaits system testing of the drone by a U.K. Ministry of Defense, U.S. Air Force, General Atomics’ team in expectation of delivery to the ...
Next month is the scheduled preliminary design review (PDR) for Boeing‘s [BA] B-52 radar modernization program (RMP), which is to feature a new, wide-band radome by L3Harris [LHX] on the aircraft’s nose; two L3Harris 8 x 20 inch high definition displays for the radar navigator and the ...
SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems have received an antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation. The contract award amount was not disclosed. The U.S. ...
Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper is trying to build the case for frequent, spiral development of the Digital Century Series (DCS) of aircraft–among them the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter–in preparation for the release of the fiscal 2022 budget in the first quarter ...
The Air Force said on Sept. 24 that it has finished a $1.27 billion Integrated Battle Station (IBS) upgrade for its fleet of Boeing [BA] B-1B bombers–a program that began in 2004 when the Air Force combined three separate cockpit modifications to save costs on hardware, software, and ...
