Air Force

The Air Force awarded root9B Technologies a cyber operations training contract worth about $5.3 million, the company said Wednesday. The contract is a four year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with […]

F-35 software instability in both blocks 3i and 3f causes certain aircraft sensors, including the radar, to shut down for minutes at a time before fully recovering, according to a […]

The Defense Department inspector general (DoD IG) opened an investigation Tuesday regarding allegations made by former United Launch Alliance (ULA) vice president of engineering Brett Tobey, Defense Daily has learned. […]

The Air Force has created a space architecture division tasked with performing a “top-down” look at the future of the space architecture and how individual programs fit within it, according […]

The military’s high demand for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) is fueling a pilot shortfall and contributing to retention problems in the Air Force’s UAS enterprise, Gen. Herbert J. Carlisle, head […]

Smaller, independently-steerable spot beams, all-digital payloads and beam-forming technologies are a few commercial satellite communication (COMSATCOM) technology trends a key Air Force official approves as the service prepares for a critical […]

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) on March 17 called on Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to initiate an investigation into statements made by a United Launch Alliance executive […]

If the Navy is permitted to fund its ballistic missile submarine through a special fund, lawmakers should consider a similar mechanism for modernizing the Air Force’s legs of the nuclear […]

The head of Air Force Space Command said Tuesday he has increased confidence that industry can have a new all-American rocket ready to fly by the 2022-23 timeframe. “I have […]

The Air Force’s goal of declaring initial operational capability (IOC) for its F-35A on Aug. 1 is at risk due to issues with the latest version of its Automated Logistics […]