Air Force
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Air ForceAir Force Chief of Staff Nominee: Service to Better Incorporate Industry, Academia to Speed Hypersonic Programs
The Air Force is currently involved in several hypersonic-related development programs with goals to test and field new platforms over the next decade, but the service needs to move more […]
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Air ForceX-37B Space Plane’s Next Launch Scheduled for Mid-May
The U.S. military’s X-37B “space plane” is scheduled to launch its sixth mission May 16, carrying multiple defense and civil space experiments aboard, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said May […]
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Business/FinancialAFA Plans Annual Air, Space, Cyber Symposium to Take Place in Fall
The Air Force Association announced May 4 that the annual Air, Space and Cyber Symposium will take place in September outside Washington, D.C., with planners watching COVID-19 pandemic developments closely. […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySabrewing Unveils Prototype ‘Rhaegal-A’ Unmanned VTOL Cargo Aircraft
At the conclusion of the Air Force’s Agility Prime event on revolutionary VTOL aircraft, California-based Sabrewing Aircraft revealed their ‘Rhaegal-A’ prototype, an unmanned heavy-lift cargo aircraft that the company says […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNorthrop Grumman Developing New Gateway Translator for Air Force’s ABMS Program
Northrop Grumman [NOC] is working with the Air Force to develop and field a gateway translator for multiple aircraft and systems to connect together under the Advanced Battle Management Program […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDrone Likely First to Receive Neuromorphic Computing Under U.S. Air Force Effort
The United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., is working to develop neuromorphic computing for possible fielding on a drone in the next five years. AFRL is […]
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Air ForceRoper: ‘In a Perfect World,’ Launch Services Procurement Program Would Have Three Vendors
The Air Force’s acquisition czar reiterated April 29 that the service can only afford to award contracts to two launch providers for future national security space launches, after a government-sponsored […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyLockheed Martin Likely to Support LRSO With Sensors, Nuclear Certification
The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are developing a plan to fit the company into the Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) program moving forward, even as the service has selected […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLRSO Might Be Early, Top Air Force Nuke General Says
Two key nuclear delivery systems, the Long Range Standoff Weapon cruise missile and the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile should be ready on time — the cruise […]
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Business/FinancialBoeing Swings To Loss In First Quarter As COVID Slams Company; KC-46 Suffers More Charges
As expected, Boeing [BA] took a wallop in its first quarter as a global economic hardship from the COVID-19 gouged first quarter financial results, mainly in its commercial businesses, but […]