Air Force
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Air ForceKC-46 Aerial Refueling Tanker Makes First Flight
The Air Force’s next aerial refueling tanker made history on Friday by making its first takeoff as a KC-46A Pegasus. The Boeing– [BA] developed aircraft took off at roughly 4:24 […]
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Air ForceAir Force Targets APKWS In ‘Should Schedule’ Acquisition Experiment
The Air Force is targeting BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APWKS) among a handful of programs for its new “Should Schedule” acquisition experiment that is based on its […]
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Air ForceVirtual Constructive, Live Training More Important Than Ever, AETC Chief Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force believes virtual constructive and live training is more important than ever due to decreased budgets and aircraft, so the head of the service’s Air Education […]
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Air ForcePresident Obama Nominates Fanning, Others To Key DoD Positions
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Eric Fanning to become the next Army secretary and others to key Defense Department positions, the White House said Friday. Obama intends to nominate […]
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Air ForceAir Force/Navy Ballistic Missile Commonality Study Nearing Completion
The overseers of the Navy’s Trident 2 D-5 program and the Air Force’s soon-to-start acquisition of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent will by Oct. 17 brief key Defense Department brass on […]
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Air ForceAir Force Official Promises to Provide LRS-B Price Information After Source Selection
The Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference has come to a close with little in the way of new information about one of the its top priorities, the long […]
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Air ForceAir Force Maintenance, Testing Would Lag Under Yearlong Continuing Resolution
A yearlong continuing resolution (CR) would push the Air Force to delay planned maintenance and testing and inhibit the service from moving forward on new programs of record, a top […]
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Air ForceHyten Warns Continuing Resolution Could Hold New Launch Vehicle Start
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The Air Force’s effort to procure a next-generation rocket propulsion system would be put on hold if lawmakers can’t pass a fiscal year 2016 budget and, instead, pass […]
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Air ForceSecDef Carter Calls Sequester, Continuing Resolution A ‘Straitjacket’
With fewer than 14 days left in the federal fiscal year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned that both of the most-likely answers to the current budget impasse would be wasteful […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin Teams With Roketsan On Long-Range Missile For F-35
Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Turkish company Roketsan have agreed to cooperatively develop a next-generation air-to-surface missile for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The so-called SOM-J is a new standoff cruise […]
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