Air Force

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is conducting a Joint Concept Technology Demonstration (JCTD) with the Navy on an AFRL-developed Dialable Effects Munition (DEM) that would allow pilots to dial […]

The U.S. Air Force has established a new, directed energy wargame to be held at least twice yearly to evaluate directed energy technologies under a variety of possible future conflict […]

While the U.S. Air Force said this month that it had, for the first time, flight tested collaborative weapons under the service’s Golden Horde program–one of three service Vanguard efforts, […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to stand up the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing to focus on offensive electronic warfare (EW) “real soon,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. […]

The U.S. Air Force’s switch from bomber forward basing to a Bomber Task Force (BTF) model is freeing up time for service personnel at Andersen AFB, Guam to focus on […]

Policy makers should embrace the U.S. Space Force as a means to increase attention on U.S. space systems and their protection and not revisit the decision to create the sixth […]

On Dec. 31, the U.S. Air Force ended its Launch Services Agreements (LSAs) with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Blue Origin and paid out $787.2 million to the companies–$531.7 million to Northrop Grumman […]

The U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is looking to mid-2022 as the first flight for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The Air Force had said […]

The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a potentially $3.6 billion operations and sustainment contract for the company’s  Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) on Jan. 21. “This contract provides […]

Eight days after the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.7 billion contract for 12 KC-46s in Lot Six of the production line, the service on Jan. 20 bought […]