Air Force

The upcoming U.S. Air Force fiscal 2024 budget request is to include about a dozen new start programs that will require congressional authorization, and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told […]

On March 3, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter signed off on Milestone C for the Boeing [BA] and Leonardo MH-139A Grey Wolf to allow it to enter low-rate […]

The U.S. Air Force has decided to end the KC-Y program for buying 150 commercial tankers as a bridge to a future Next-Generation Air-Refueling System (NGAS) tanker–the formerly known KC-Z–and […]

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has become the first domestic customer for the MQ-9B SkyGuardian–a follow-on to the renowned MQ-9A Reaper, General Atomics said on March 6. Under the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on March 6 that it has resumed flight acceptance testing in Fort Worth, Texas of the company’s F-35 fighter. “We resumed F-35 production flight operations today […]

Rolls-Royce said on March 1 that it has begun testing its F130 engine for the B-52 bomber at the company’s outdoor testing site at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. […]

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has directed a fleetwide retrofit for Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As, Bs, and Cs to mitigate any future “harmonic resonance,” which may increase stress on […]

While Kratos [KTOS] annually builds 150 drones, including its Valkyrie XQ-58A, the company could double or triple such production now with existing plants to meet possible surge demands, a company […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.2 billion research and development contract to begin rapid prototyping of the E-7A Wedgetail aircraft. Boeing said that, under the contract, […]

Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] Pratt & Whitney held a supplier day Feb. 28 on Capitol Hill for the company’s proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 […]