Air Force
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InternationalLatest $800 Million Weapons Aid To Ukraine Has New ‘Phoenix Ghost’ Drones, Biden To Ask For More Funds
President Biden on Thursday said the U.S. will send another $800 million in military equipment to Ukraine, to include new AEVEX Aerospace-built tactical drones recently developed by the Air Force. […]
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Air ForceUSAF Plans Roll-Out of T-7A Red Hawk Next Week
The U.S. Air Force is planning to roll out its digitally engineered T-7A Red Hawk trainer in St. Louis next week. Boeing [BA] and Sweden’s Saab are the prime contractors […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNight Vision Advances May Make Their Way Into F-35, Army IVAS
Significant night vision advances over the next several years may filter into programs, such as the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 and the U.S. Army Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset, […]
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Air ForceNGAD ‘Relatively Successful,’ As Air Force Seeks to Build Upon It, Kendall Says
The U.S. Air Force wants to advance its classified Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) manned sixth generation fighter, each of which may operate with a handful of drones, Air Force […]
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Air ForceRamp Expansion, Temporary Fabric Hangars Needed at Tinker AFB for B-52 Modernization USAF Says
The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (OC-ALC) at Tinker AFB, Okla., will need more space to help accomplish the re-engining of the B-52H, per U.S. Air Force fiscal 2023 budget […]
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Nuclear ModernizationE-4B Operators at Offutt AFB Receive High Fidelity, Full Motion Simulator
This month, the Air Force 595th Command and Control Group at Offutt AFB, Neb., received the first high fidelity, full motion simulator for nuclear command and control (C2)/disaster C2 aircraft […]
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SpaceTimeline for Fielding Unified Data Library Uncertain, As U.S. Space Force Continues Prototyping
The timeline for fielding the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Unified Data Library (UDL) is uncertain, as the service continues prototyping for UDL to serve as a centralized, cloud-based data repository […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Looking Into Buy of Dronebuster 3 Jammers for Joint Base Andrews
The U.S. Air Force is looking into the buy of Dronebuster 3 jammers by Portland, Ore.-based Flex Force Enterprises for the Air Force District of Washington (AFDW) at Joint Base […]
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SpaceChina and Russia Increased Number of Satellites 70 Percent Between 2019 and 2021, DIA Says
Between 2019 and 2021, China doubled its number of satellites in orbit from some 250 to 499, while Russia increased its number of orbiting satellites from about 150 in 2019 […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Wants to Harness Commercial Industry Ideas on Debris Removal
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) may hold an industry day to hear from commercial companies about possible technologies for space debris removal, the profit potential for such companies […]
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