Air Force
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Air ForceAir Force F-35 Program Gets Help From Budget Deal
Language included in the newly enacted federal budget agreement will allow the Air Force to proceed with “critical” construction projects for its F-35A Lightning II program, according to a congressional […]
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Air ForceAir Force Says T-6A Trainer Plane’s Woes May Be Due To Maintenance
The U.S. Air Force is investigating whether maintenance problems with the T-6A’s pilot breathing system caused a recent surge in physiological episodes (PEs) that led to the grounding of the […]
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Air ForceAir Force Plans Second Light-Attack Aircraft Experiment
The U.S. Air Force intends to conduct a second phase of experiments with light-attack aircraft this spring and summer, the service said Feb. 2. The Air Force said in a […]
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Air ForceAir Force Grounds T-6A Trainers After Physiological Events
The U.S. Air Force said it will ground its fleet of T-6A Texan II trainer planes Feb. 1 so it can investigate what caused a “cluster” of recent physiological events at […]
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Air ForceAir Force Issues Final RFP For Five Launches
The U.S. Air Force released a final request for proposals Jan. 31 to launch five Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft in the early 2020s. According to the […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin To Develop Replacement Prototype for Air Force’s Airborne Launch Control System
The Air Force is moving forward with the effort to modernize its Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) for ICBMs with an $81 million deal to Lockheed Martin [LMT] to develop […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program To Speed Up Fielding Of New Anti-Collision System
The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has announced that it plans to accelerate the integration of the new Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) into the fighter […]
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Air ForceAir Force F-22 Upgrades Move Into Operational Testing
The U.S. Air Force has started conducting operational testing for a series of major upgrades to the F-22 Raptor, according to a new report by the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester. The […]
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Air ForceAir Force, Army To Hold Joint Exercises On Multi-Domain Battle
The U.S. Air Force and Army plan to conduct a series of joint table-top exercises over the next year to refine ideas for fighting seamlessly across multiple domains, an Air […]
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CongressSASC OKs Griffin For DoD Research Post, Roper For Air Force Acquisition Chief
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Jan. 24 approved the nomination of former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin to lead the Department of Defense’s new research and engineering shop. The […]