Air Force

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has formally nominated Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown to become the Air Force’s next chief of staff. If confirmed, Brown would become the […]

The Air Force decided to cancel a major defensive upgrade to its B-2 stealth bomber in the fiscal year 2021 budget request after realizing that new software code wouldn’t work […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – SpaceX has managed to bring the unit cost down to build its Starlink broadband internet satellites, but needs to do the same for its forthcoming Starship launch […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force is on schedule to deliver a major maintenance depot contract by the end of the year that could be worth hundreds of millions of […]

A critical component of the Air Force’s KC-46A aerial refueling tanker that has been caught up in a difficult development has made more progress in the past month than in […]

PROMONTORY, Utah —Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday conducted a successful first test of the second stage motor for its OmegA launch vehicle, a critical step as the company prepares for […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force last year identified $30 billion it had found over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) that could be freed up from current programs […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force’s new HH-60W combat search-and-rescue helicopter has received its official name, which pays tribute to the aircraft that rescued downed airmen in Vietnam in the […]

U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) is asking lawmakers to buy back the majority of aging aerial refuelers that had been tagged for rapid retirement in the fiscal year 2021 budget request, […]

Agility Prime, the Air Force’s exploratory transformative vertical flight program, released an Area of Interest (AOI) effort to work with commercial developers of VTOL aircraft, resulting in a prototype test […]