Air Force

The Defense Department’s chief weapons tester questions the logic and legality of the Pentagon’s block buy approach to buying F-35s due to the program’s state of maturity and the law’s […]

The Pentagon after releasing its fiscal year 2017 budget on Feb. 9 will find itself needing to come up with $22 billion to cover the difference between its request and […]

The ground system is “by far” the most vulnerable portion of the Air Force’s space architecture and that concerns a key service official. Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force […]

The Air Force on Tuesday said it intends to sole source contracts to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) recapitalization radar technical […]

Two years later than originally planned, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has a green light to make its international debut this summer at two airshows in the United Kingdom. Short-takeoff, […]

After years of stagnant Pentagon budgets, the next presidential administration will face a defense acquisition bow wave in the early 2020s and will need an influx of funding to pay […]

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) plan to introduce bills repealing a provision in the fiscal year 2016 appropriations bill […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Blue Origin recently achieved a pair of rocket milestones. The Air Force on Monday updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launch […]

NATO countries that fly the Boeing [BA] C-17 Globemaster will begin training aircrews at the company’s international training center (ITC) in the United Kingdom rather than sending them to the […]

The Air Force on Monday awarded a pair of contracts to Boeing [BA] and Arctic Slope Technical Services (ARTS) under its Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation, […]