Air Force

The Air Force is pushing back the launches of two Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellites that were supposed to lift off this fall. Each spacecraft – the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency […]

Harris Corp. [HRS] said Aug. 9 that it expects to deliver the fourth of 10 navigation payloads for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites this fall. The […]

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to send Congress this month a multi-billion-dollar upgrade plan for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said […]

The Defense Department has issued guidance on how to deal with unauthorized commercial drones flying over U.S. military bases, though just how troops are able to shoot them down or […]

The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) are partnering to explore technologies for a potential light-attack aircraft for special operations forces (SOF). The Air Force Lifecycle Management […]

The U.S. Department of Defense’s nuclear posture review is looking at whether the schedule for replacing the three legs of the aging nuclear triad should be revised, a Pentagon official […]

Building a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will be cheaper than upgrading the 1970s-era Minuteman III, a Boeing [BA] official said on Wednesday. Frank McCall, Boeing vice president for strategic […]

The U.S. military should continue improving its stealth aircraft technology to keep its advantage over possible rivals in the coming decades, according to a report released Aug. 2 by the […]

Air Tractor and L3 Technologies [LLL] have announced that they plan to participate in the U.S. Air Force’s light-attack aircraft experiment using their new AT-802L Longsword turboprop. Air Tractor, of […]

Two troubled U.S. Air Force space-related acquisition efforts — the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) and the Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminal […]