Air Force

The U.S. Space Force was to release a final solicitation for the Space Force Range Contract (SFRC) by May 25, but the service now expects the RFP will come around […]

ST. LOUIS—Boeing [BA] as early as this week is slated to begin taxi tests of its first T-7A trainer aircraft that is in the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase […]

MASCOUTAH, Ill.—Boeing [BA] is conducting a test program in the U.S. with a mostly secret unmanned aircraft being developed with Australia’s air force, marking the first time the stealthy loyal […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said this week that it recently finished a preliminary design review (PDR) for the U.S. Space Force’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) polar (NGP) […]

President Biden on May 25 announced his pick to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)–U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown, a former […]

The U.S. Space Force is looking to artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to aid space domain awareness and other mission areas, a top service official said on May 24. The Space […]

The F-35 program has lost track of millions of dollars in spare parts held at more than 50 domestic and international non-prime contractor sites, according to a new Government Accountability […]

U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) fiscal 2024 wish list points to what the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has said is a primary longer term goal of artificial intelligence (AI)–the prediction […]

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) is pressing DoD and the U.S. Air Force to affirm the 2021 selection of Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the permanent base […]

The Pentagon will have a higher degree of control over the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program than DoD has had with the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter, Air Force […]