Air Force

The U.S. Air Force needs to improve its “stand-in” capabilities for envisioned, future conflicts in which adversaries have advanced, anti-air and other anti-access/area-denial systems, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. […]

The U.S. Air Force is awarding about $45 million to Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] for the next step in the service’s Stand-in Attack Weapon […]

The United Kingdom is negotiating with Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) on 26 additional F-35Bs for the U.K., but a contract is unlikely before 2024 […]

The fiscal year 2022 defense appropriations law provided $550 million for the Space Development Agency (SDA) to accelerate development of the Tracking Layer to support U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and an […]

The United Kingdom has 48 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35B fighters under contract for delivery and is looking into the buy of another 26 to bring the U.K. inventory to 74, […]

Boeing [BA] has received the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Supplemental Type Certifications (STCs) for the company’s MH-139A Grey Wolf to enter developmental testing, the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management […]

The Pentagon is to determine the future supply chain strategy for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. In April, 2019, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) advised the F-35 program to […]

Five companies–General Electric [GE], Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney [RTX], Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], and Northrop Grumman [NOC]–are receiving contracts under an umbrella, $975 million effort for the prototype […]

A bill that would enlist an independent research group to study the impact of “pass-through” funding to Department of the Air Force and other services’ programs is before the House […]

The U.S. Air Force is looking to industry to help sustain the BAE Systems Lite Head-Up Display (LiteHUD) that the service is installing on the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AC-130J Ghost […]