Air Force
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Air Force
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Receives $1.3 Billion F135 Engine Core Upgrade Contract
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney has received a more than $1.3 billion cost plus incentive fee contract for the F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 […]
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Space
Apex SN1 Satellite, Launched in March, Has Anduril Payload
Anduril Industries is teaming with Los Angeles-based Apex to help bring Anduril’s philosophy of mass produced, high tech aircraft, ships, and land systems to space. “We recognize as a company […]
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Air Force
Continued Use of Chinese Printed Wiring Boards on KC-46 Low Risk, DoD Says
Chinese-made printed wiring boards (PWBs) on U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus tankers by Boeing [BA] represent a low technical risk, DoD acquisition chief William LaPlante ruled last year. PWBs, like […]
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USAF Awards Lockheed Martin $3.2 Billion for JASSM/LRASM
Lockheed Martin [LMT] is receiving a firm fixed price contract worth up to $3.2 billion for a “large lot” buy of the company’s AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and […]
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Space
No Comment from ODNI on Maximizing Commercial Imagery/Analytics, GAO Says
More than two years ago, the Government Accountability Office advised that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) ensure that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National […]
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Air Force
Pentagon to ‘Monitor and Assess’ Boeing Performance
The Pentagon said on Friday that it is examining what steps to take to ensure quality control on Boeing [BA] aircraft for the military services as a result of the […]
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Space
Space RCO Places First Delivery Orders for R2C2
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., said that it has placed the first $12 million in delivery orders for the Rapid Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) […]
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Air Force
Wittman Calls for Department of the Air Force Accounting on Chinese Suppliers
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) tactical air and land forces panel, has asked U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall for an accounting […]
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Air Force
Reed/Wicker to Propose Addition of Three F-35s for Developmental Testing
Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are to propose an amendment to the Senate’s version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization […]
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Space
Four Companies to Begin Design of Resilient GPS
Astranis, Axient, L3Harris Technologies [LHX] and Sierra Space are to submit design concepts for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) to U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) to launch […]
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