Air Force
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Air ForceAir Force’s Troubled GPS Ground System Getting More Scrutiny
The Pentagon is closely monitoring the future ground control system for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to ensure the long-troubled program remains on a road to recovery, […]
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Air ForceAir Force Budget Boosts B-21 Bomber, Long Range Standoff Weapon
The Air Force’s fiscal year 2018 budget request contains billions of dollars to ramp up development work on several major new aviation and missile programs, including the B-21 bomber and […]
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Air ForceAir Force Budget Boosts B-21 Bomber, Long Range Standoff Weapon
The Air Force’s fiscal year 2018 budget request contains billions of dollars to ramp up development work on several major new aviation and missile programs, including the B-21 bomber and […]
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Air ForceTrump’s $639 Billion Defense Budget Misses ‘Historic’ Increase Mark, Focuses On Current Fight Over Long-term Modernization
The Trump Administration’s proposed 2018 defense budget falls short of the dramatic boost to military spending he has repeatedly promised, focusing instead on beefing up near-term combat capabilities while setting […]
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Air Force
Trump’s $639 Billion Defense Budget Misses ‘Historic’ Increase Mark, Focuses On Current Fight Over Long-term Modernization
The Trump Administration’s proposed 2018 defense budget falls short of the dramatic boost to military spending he has repeatedly promised, focusing instead on beefing up near-term combat capabilities while setting […]
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Air ForceU.S.-Australian Hypersonics Program Nears Next Flight Test
The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program, a U.S.-Australian effort to improve understanding of high-speed flight, plans to conduct its next flight test “in the next couple months,” according […]
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SpaceDoD To Finish Space Organization Review In June
The U.S. Department of Defense, which is conducting a congressionally mandated review of potential improvements to its space organization, plans to send a report on its findings to Capitol Hill […]
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Air ForceAir Force Lab Unveils Counter-Drone Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on May 18 unveiled two technology efforts it is working on to disrupt and capture small, hostile drones. The first system, or spiral, which […]
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Air ForceAir Force’s B-21 Bomber On Track, General Says
U.S. Air Force efforts to develop the new B-21 Raider bomber aircraft are proceeding as planned, according to the head of Air Force Global Strike Command. ”We’re where we said […]
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Air ForceAir Force ‘Extremely Happy’ With F-35A’s First Overseas Training Deployment
The U.S. Air Force’s first overseas training deployment of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A Lightning II went smoothly and provided an opportunity to test the new fighter jet’s procedures and […]