Air Force

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) suggested on May 10 that the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper could provide significant intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)/strike benefits to U.S. and allied forces in the […]

In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it was able as a federal government-deemed essential business to hire 12,000 workers, and the company is now on the […]

The Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) is inadequate for the real-time inventory of property for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 at 671 government and contractor sites, per a new Government […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to use spiral development to field small satellites for military use every two years–a fraction of the time required for large DoD acquisition programs, […]

The U.S. Air Force is considering an avionics replacement program for the fleet of 442 Beechcraft [TXT] T-6A Texan trainers, as the latter face parts obsolescence and safety of flight […]

The U.S. Air Force has started to examine the attributes of a KC-Z tanker, but it appears that the future of a KC-Y “bridge tanker” is in doubt. The KC-Y […]

The U.S. Air Force is investigating if and how it may accelerate the planned procurement of 15 Boeing [BA] E-7 Wedgetails as a partial replacement for the service’s 31 E-3 […]

The U.S. Air Force is focusing on system quality and resilience more than system numbers and lethality, as the service requests a record $49.2 billion in research and development in […]

U.S. Air Force officials told lawmakers last week that a report is out on the results of comparion testing between the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A and the A-10C close air […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the service has devoted funding in the last few months to rectify a delay in fielding Link 16 cryptographic modernization for aircraft […]