Air Force

The Agility Prime program from the U.S. Air Force has invested in multiple electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and now it is investing in a new type of […]

The U.S. Air Force is negotiating a three-year sustainment contract with Lockheed Martin [LMT] for its F-35A Lightning II fighter–a contract that is to have performance incentives for cost reduction, […]

The Pentagon recently demonstrated autonomous, artifical intelligence (AI)-enabled tracking of mobile targets–an effort simultaneous with other such AI drone projects and DoD’s development of principles for ethical AI use, a […]

The U.S. Air Force is weighing the timelines for the retirement of Block 40 RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drones by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the fielding of a classified replacement […]

The Air Force’s AFWERX Agility Prime program has been investing in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft with the hope of bringing advancements to the industry and providing possible […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. expects the qualification of a new software baseline for the future command and control (C2) system […]

Of the U.S. Air Force’s nearly $204 million requested funding in fiscal 2022 for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), $147 million is for development of the ABMS Airborne Edge […]

The U. S. Space Force on June 13 launched a Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) technology demonstration satellite from a Northrop Grumman [NOC] Pegasus XL rocket. The latter, carried on a […]

As NATO countries see cyber attacks increasing, the alliance is embarking on cybersecurity efforts, including offensive cyber capabilities, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 15. At the 2014 […]

Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] ALQ-131C electronic warfare (EW) suite for the Air Force F-16 fighter by Lockheed Martin [LMT] has proven out in testing with the F-16’s new AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile […]