Air Force

U.S. AIR FORCE PLANT 42 PALMDALE, Calif.—Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Sept. 8 unveiled the Model 401 aircraft, built by the Burt Rutan-founded, Northrop Grumman-owned Scaled Composites for an unnamed “very […]

General Electric [GE] said on Sept. 7 that the company has begun testing the second prototype of the XA100 adaptive cycle engine as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Adaptive […]

Airmen at Nellis AFB, Nev., are using the Web-based Information Dominant Warfare (WIDOW) software application, developed by the U.S. Air Force Kessel Run unit, to increase information exchange speed during […]

As the U.S. Space Force plans to start moving away from the extended data rate (XDR) Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) strategic communications satellites in the next decade to field […]

Tangram Flex, an Ohio software company, has been awarded a new Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program that will be focusing on advancing […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill directs the U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to inform the committee of radars’ ability to detect […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill would permit the U.S. Space Force to put in place a Service Acquisition Executive (SAE) before […]

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), a critic of the F-35 program, has suggested that an acceleration of the U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris [LHX] a contract worth up to $947 million over 10 years for the company’s AN/ALQ-172 countermeasures program and modernization. Work will take place […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s rocket propulsion division at Edwards AFB, Calif., is using a new piece of equipment, a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar system–known as a Kolsky bar–to aid eventually […]