Air Force
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Missile DefenseGuillot: HBTSS ‘Extremely Promising,’ Kill Vehicles Against Hypersonic Missiles Big Challenge
Pentagon officials have said that the speed and “end game” maneuverability of Chinese hypersonic missiles are concerns in setting up U.S. defenses against them, but Space Force/Missile Defense Agency Hypersonic […]
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Air ForceFirst OA-1K Skyraider Delivered to AFSOC
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] and Air Tractor said on Thursday that they have delivered the first “missionized” OA-1K Skyraider II aircraft for U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) at Hurlburt Field, […]
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CongressWicker Calls for Ten-Fold Increase in Annual DoD Replicator Spending
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is calling for a ten-fold increase in annual spending on DoD’s Replicator initiative. Replicator, “an opening move toward making big bets on […]
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SpaceSlingshot Aerospace Nabs AFWERX Award To Apply AI Tool For Space Domain Awareness
The Air Force’s innovation arm has awarded Slingshot Aerospace a small award to further develop an artificial intelligence capability that rapidly analyzes data about spacecraft in low Earth orbit to […]
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Air ForceCramer: Sentinel Design Changes May Be Possible to Fit In Minuteman III Silos
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said on Tuesday that the U.S. Air Force may be able to re-use some Minuteman III silos to house the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel […]
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Air ForceUSAF Awards Boeing Nearly $2.5 Billion C-17 Sustainment Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $2.5 billion two-and-a-half year contract for sustainment of the company’s C-17 cargo aircraft for Australia, Canada, India, Kuwait, the NATO […]
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Air ForceUSAF Sustainment Center Examines Reduction in AWACS Costs
While the U.S. Air Force may buy 26 Boeing [BA] E-7 Wedgetails to replace its fleet of 16 1970s-era E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes, also by Boeing, […]
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Special OperationsLeidos Successfully Flies Guided Small Cruise Missile
U.S. Special Operations Command has said that Black Arrow, flight tested from an Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130J last November, may become operational in late fiscal 2026 (Defense Daily, […]
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PentagonUpcoming Personnel Changes May Be Particularly Acute for Relatively Small U.S. Space Force
A memorandum that DoD said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed on March 28 may result in significant organizational changes in the Department of the Air Force, Navy, and Army, including […]
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Air ForceMeink Favors Multiple Competitions Within Programs, Examining Large ‘Heavy Press’-Type Industrial Investment
Secretary of the Air Force-nominee Troy Meink says that he favors multiple competitions over modernization programs’ lifetimes and an examination of direct, “big” investment in industrial capacity akin to the […]