Air Force
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Air ForceAFSOC Lines Up Partial Funding For Laser Gunship Demo
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is making progress in getting funding to demonstrate a laser gunship prototype but remains well short of what it needs, according to the […]
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Navy/USMCF-35 Chief: Program Structure Should Change As Jet Enters Production, Operation
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Impending changes to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter management structure are a natural result of the program moving from development to production and the jets becoming […]
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Air ForceAir Force Probing Rise In Minor Aviation Mishaps
The Air Force is trying to determine why it experienced a recent uptick in minor aviation accidents, a service official said. The increase has been in Class C mishaps, which […]
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Air ForceDoD Deputy Gets ‘Deep Dive’ Briefing On Air Force’s B-21 Bomber
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, whose duties include overseeing big-ticket acquisition programs, attended a recent “deep dive” briefing on the Air Force’s B-21 Raider to better familiarize himself with the bomber development effort, a service […]
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Air ForceAir Force To Launch Communications Relay Satellite
The U.S. Air Force announced April 6 that it plans to launch a new communications-relay satellite as part of a multi-payload mission later this month. The Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM […]
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Air Force
DoD Eyes Shifting F-35 Management To Military Services
The U.S. Department of Defense wants to restructure the F-35 Lightning II program to give the military services more control over the maturing fighter jet, according to Pentagon officials. DoD […]
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Air ForceDoD Starts Study On Airlift, Sealift And Tanker Needs
The Department of Defense has launched a congressionally mandated study to determine how many refueling aircraft, transport planes and cargo ships it will need to support future military operations. U.S. Transportation Command […]
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Air ForceAir Force To Hash Out KC-46A Tanker Schedule With Boeing
U.S. Air Force officials plan to meet with Boeing [BA] representatives in early or mid-April to try to reach agreement on a new delivery timeline for the delay-plagued KC-46A Pegasus […]
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Air ForceAir Force Seeks To Sustain Fifth-Generation F-35s At Fourth-Gen Prices
The U.S. Air Force hopes to wring out enough savings from its new F-35 Lightning II fleet to allow the stealthy fighter jet’s sustainment costs to match those of legacy […]
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Air ForceAir Force Wants Cheap, Expendable Drones And Missiles To Overwhelm Enemy Air Defenses
AUSTIN, Texas — Pentagon scientists are trying to beat the cost curve the military likely will encounter in future wars by designing low-cost, expendable unmanned aircraft and munitions that can […]