Air Force
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Air ForceAir Force Chief Nominee Allvin Wants More ‘System-Centric’ Approach To ISR Assets
As the Air Force looks to retire some of its legacy intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms, the nominee to be the service’s next chief of staff said Tuesday he wants […]
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Air ForceBAE, L3Harris Deliver First Compass Call Aircraft To Air Force
BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Tuesday said they have delivered the first of 10 EC-37B Compass Call electronic attack aircraft to the Air Force. The EA-37B, which is […]
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Air ForceCollaborative Aircraft Require Step Up In Battle Management, Air Force Official Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Conducting battle management from a cockpit or a command-and-control aircraft is nothing new but the coming introduction of long-range jet-powered drones that will work with manned platforms amid […]
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Air ForceUSAF ‘Very Opposed’ to HASC Cost Targets for CCA
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of a fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill would put the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in three cost target categories […]
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Air ForceKendall Initiates Rapid Review Of Basic Air And Space Force Missions In Support Of COCOMs
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force and Space Force have begun a broad review of how they fulfil their basic missions in support of the combatant commands and the joint force […]
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Air ForceVan Ovost: Logistics C2 Included in Global Information Dominance Experiment
Military planners are starting to include logistics command and control in the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, a top commander said on Sept. 11. U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDelays in Certification of ULA Vulcan Centaur V Will Not Result in Loss of ULA Launches
Delays in the test flight certification of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket’s Centaur V upper stage will not result in any extra launches for SpaceX for the U.S. […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Addressing F135 NMC Rate Due to Engine Maintenance
The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said that it is addressing a higher than desired non-mission capable (NMC) rate for maintenance of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] fighter’s F135 engine by […]
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Air ForceFirst Delivery of F-35 with TR-3 Expected Between April and June Next Year
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said in an 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Sept. 6 that the company expects to deliver the first F-35 in a Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) […]
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Air ForceLatest Unarmed Minuteman III Test One of More Than 300 So Far, AFGSC Says
U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and the U.S. Space Force’s 30th Space Launch Delta Guardians launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with three […]
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