Air Force
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Air ForceAppropriations Language Directs USAF To Consider Ramping Up Hardened Shelters For Aircraft
Legislators want the U.S. Air Force to consider ramping up the build of hardened shelters, according to an explanatory statement of a deal to fund the government through Jan. 30, […]
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CongressSenate’s Deal To End Shutdown Funds Military Construction, Flexibilities For E-7, Shipbuilding
The Senate is moving ahead on a deal to end the shutdown with a stopgap funding measure that includes spending flexibilities for the E-7 Wedgetail and prior year shipbuilding programs […]
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Business/FinancialRaytheon and Lockheed Martin to Have “Preferred Access” to SRMs Built at Avio’s Future SRM Plant
RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Italy’s Avio SpA to help build a “state of the art” solid rocket motor (SRM) plant […]
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SpaceU.S. Allies to Gain Access To Military GPS User Equipment
U.S. allies are to have access to the market for Military Global Positioning System (GPS) User Equipment (MGUE) under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) by U.S. Space Force Space Systems […]
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Space15-Year Space Force Plan May Include Systems To Ease Transition To “Dynamic Space Operations”
The U.S. Space Force is preparing a 15-year force design plan that may include “dynamic space operations” (DSO) for satellite refueling and on-orbit maintenance, depot, and modernization. “We know that […]
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Nuclear ModernizationFirst Sentinel Flight Test To Be Pad Launched
Rather than an ICBM test silo, the U.S. Air Force is to use a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., for the first flight test of an unarmed […]
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Air ForceUSAF Lease Of Space For AI Data Centers At Five Bases May Last Longer Than 50 Years, If Benefit National Defense
The U.S. Air Force may offer leases longer than 50 years for artificial intelligence data centers at five bases, if those centers benefit national defense or “the public interest.” In […]
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Unmanned SystemsGE Aerospace’s F110-GE-129 Engine To Power Shield AI X-BAT
GE Aerospace‘s [GE] F110-GE-129 engine with the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) is to power Shield AI‘s future X-BAT drone fighter jet, according to a Memorandum of Understanding between the […]
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CongressWittman: Number Of USAF Fighters Below Congressionally Mandated Inventory, But New Study Raises Hopes
While the U.S. Air Force remains below a fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act enacted floor of 1,145 Primary Aircraft Inventory (PMAI) fighters, a new 10-year fighter force structure study […]
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Nuclear ModernizationWarren Asks STRATCOM Nominee To “Not Stand In The Way” Of Independent Studies On Sentinel
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week asked President Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) not to “shield” nuclear weapons programs “from independent oversight.” During the confirmation […]