Air Force
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Air ForceHouse Wants Annual USAF Minuteman III Sustainment Plan Until Sentinel Reaches Full Deployment
The House’s fiscal 2026 national defense authorization bill, which the body passed last week, would require the U.S. Air Force to submit to lawmakers a plan to sustain aging components […]
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Air ForceAFGSC: Stock of Minuteman III Silos Sufficient, As USAF Prepares for Sentinel Transition
The U.S. Air Force inventory of silos able to launch 1970s-era Boeing [BA] LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs is in no immediate danger of dropping below the 400 ICBM threshold established […]
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Air ForceSecond B-21 Raider Bomber Arrives at Edwards, As USAF Plans Increase in Flight Tests
The second U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber by Northrop Grumman [NOC] has arrived at Edwards AFB, Calif., for flight testing, the service said on Thursday. “With the arrival […]
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Air ForceUSAF Testing Leidos’ AlphaMosaic AI Battle Management, As Company Looks to 2027 for Fielding
The U.S. Air Force is testing Leidos‘ [LDOS] AlphaMosaic battle management artificial intelligence (AI) software, which the company hopes to have fully on tap in the next two to three […]
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Air ForceF.E. Warren AFB to Be Test Site for New Sentinel Silos
As the U.S. Air Force and DoD restructure the program for the future LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC], the Government Accountability Office notes a number of changes, including […]
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SpaceSDA Looks to Next Year for Operational Utility of Tranche 1, Transport Layer
On Wednesday, the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) is to launch 21 York Space Systems‘ satellites–the first that are to provide utility for fielded military forces in the […]
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Air ForceTwo-Year Effort to Design, Build, Test USAF Next Generation Penetrator Prototypes to Begin
Albuquerque’s Applied Research Associates (ARA) is to work with Boeing [BA] over the next two years to design, build, and test subscale and full scale prototypes of a Next Generation […]
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Air ForceUSAF APKWS Getting Software Upgrade for Counter Drone Operations
As part of an effort to field more affordable, counter drone systems, the U.S. Air Force in April issued a relatively small, $1.6 million contract to BAE Systems‘ site in […]
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Air ForceFPS-117 Radomes for North Warning System ‘Experiencing Serious Panel Decay’
The U.S. Air Force plans to replace the Alaska Warning System’s/North Warning System’s (NWS) 27 AN/FPS-117 radomes–15 in Alaska, one in Utah, one in Hawaii, and 10 in Canada. A […]
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ArmyNorthrop Grumman/U.S. Army Negotiating ITDS Scope to Meet Service Fielding Goals
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.—Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS) for U.S. Army helicopters includes a two-color display, long wave infrared, one megapixel camera. The features are to allow spotting […]