Air Force

The first Lockheed Martin [LMT] short-takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B assembled outside the United States rolled out of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy on May […]

The Senate plans to vote May 8 on the nomination of former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) to be Air Force secretary, according to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). A hold that […]

PHILADELPHIA–Boeing [BA] and Italy’s Leonardo said Monday they are confident their MH-139 is the best value to the taxpayer for the UH-1N Huey helicopter replacement program. Boeing revealed in March it […]

Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which relies on the military services to provide much of its enabling technologies and platforms, has begun blazing trails to new technologies and sharing that knowledge […]

U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), which recently conducted its first contested-environment wargame, uncovered a “surprising amount” of lessons learned from that activity, the head of TRANSCOM said May 2. “We’ve adapted […]

Boeing [BA] and partner Saab completed the first flight of their second production-ready T-X aircraft, according to a Boeing statement. The second T-X aircraft is identical to the first and […]

U.S. Air Force officials announced Wednesday the start of a new Defense Department “bug bounty” program directed at the service to find cyber vulnerabilities in public-facing websites. This new bug […]

A December study produced by Air University suggests the Air Force further use the Pentagon’s other transaction authority (OTA) to partner with domestic commercial firms pursuing quick and rapid launch […]

A top commercial space executive on Wednesday lamented the Air Force’s slow pace toward eliminating duplicative requirements and approvals for commercial launches, despite a pair of 2016 letters from a […]

Finalizing the baseline software configuration for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could take a year longer than planned, cost nearly $2 billion more than is budgeted and threaten the Navy […]