Air Force

The U.S. Air Force and Navy have begun studying the possibility of pursuing a cooperative effort to replace their aging command-and-control aircraft. Adm. Bill Moran, vice chief of naval operations, […]

A Senate bill has been drafted that would limit funding for the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) Weapon at 2017 levels until President Donald Trump’s administration submits a Nuclear Posture Review […]

Not only is modernizing and recapitalizing the nuclear deterrent the Pentagon’s top priority, but modernizing the system’s command and control (C2) capabilities is another prerogative, according to officials. The Defense […]

Germany’s Rheinmetall completed a U.S. Air Force contract worth over $6.5 million to supply 25mm x 137 Frangible Armour Piercing (FAP) ammunition to the F-35 fighter, the company said Monday. […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) delayed the launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-9 satellite for the U.S. Air Force for no earlier than March 14 after finding a […]

All the traditional helicopters that the military will field are either already in service or under development and any future work will feed directly into the multi-service Future Vertical Lift […]

The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon [RTN] validated the performance of an upgraded navigation system for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J), the company said Tuesday. The upgrade, called GPS […]

The fiscal year 2017 defense appropriations bill released Thursday slams the F-35 program, accusing it of, among other things, allegedly not contracting for the proper number of aircraft in each […]

Several companies this week have revealed their offerings to replace the U.S. Air Force’s UH-1N Huey fleet, including Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], and possibly Textron [TXT]. The UH-1N Replacement […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) on Wednesday successfully lofted a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The NROL-79 […]