Air Force

ORLANDO, Fla. – The prospect of the Space Development Agency (SDA) – one of the key pillars of President Trump’s administration’s effort to improve space acquisition at the Pentagon – […]

Sikorsky [LMT] has fully assembled two HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters (CRH) and is preparing them for maiden flights before mid-year at the company’s site in West Palm Beach, Florida. The HH-60W […]

The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $59 million contract to develop an embedded GPS system for the F-22 Raptor and other aircraft. The embedded GPS/INS-modernization (EGI-M) program […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] announced Feb. 26 that it is offering its advanced AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) for the Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress radar replacement program. The service is […]

The U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) commander told lawmakers Feb. 26 that he is supportive of plans to place the new Space Force under the Air Force, but noted that there […]

Rolls-Royce officially plans to pitch its F130 engine to replace the aging systems on the Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber, in a possible three-way competition with Pratt & Whitney […]

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded contracts worth nearly $739 million total to United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX for launch services for six future national […]

Florida’s congressional delegation and governor are pushing hard for the Pentagon to base its future U.S. Space Command in the Sunshine State. A bipartisan group of House members led by […]

President Trump has signed off on a directive that would put the Air Force in charge of the Space Force, pending congressional approval. Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4 (SPD-4) Feb. […]

Cobham said Feb. 19 it has accepted about $206 million in new charges from Boeing [BA] to end an ongoing dispute related to the Air Force’s new KC-46A Pegasus aerial […]