Air Force

Those in uniform have criticized military services’ outsourcing of sustainment to industry as leading to higher costs, causing repair delays, and lowering military readiness. Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), […]

Rolls-Royce said on Friday that its F130 engine passed a U.S. Air Force Critical Design Review (CDR)–a step “clearing the way for final development, test, and production efforts to proceed […]

The relative new kids on the defense block, such as Anduril and  Palantir [PLTR], stand to win big, if one reads behind Thursday comments by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the […]

As Taiwan awaits the arrival of new Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 Vipers to help counter China, the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday announced a $987 million contract to Leidos [LDOS] […]

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has 20 percent more infrastructure, including bases, than needed, a department official said on Wednesday. “Fact–we probably have about 20 percent more infrastructure […]

The Defense Department on Wednesday announced the award of at least $10 million each to five small businesses to transition their technologies into production for different Defense Department customers. The […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that its first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Block 0 satellite has advanced to system level testing at the company’s plant […]

Given SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s recent statement that manned fighters are “obsolete in the age of drones” and his role as a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, one of […]

The incoming administration of President-elect Trump is likely to propose a ramping up of commercial space to serve national security needs, according to a new paper from the National Security […]

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. [RKLB] said on Dec. 9 that it launched a suborbital mission last month to test hypersonic technology for the Pentagon’s Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed […]