Air Force

A Government Accountability Office report released last week added fuel to A-10 proponents’ arguments to keep the aircraft a staple of Air Force fleets. For several years, the Air Force […]

A key lawmaker Friday floated the idea of paying United Launch Alliance (ULA) to keep its Delta IV rocket available for future national security space launches, in contrast to the […]

Air Force officials and industry executives pleaded with a House Armed Services subcommittee today to extend the 2019 deadline for finding a replacement to the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine that […]

There is no deadline for the Defense Department to enact the national security waiver that would allow it to use additional RD-180s in the future, according to a top Air […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) last week approved an additional $25 million in fiscal year 2016 for the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) mission. […]

The Air Force awarded Kudu Dynamics, LLC a $7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development for transparent computing last week. The contractor development is to work to enable the […]

Orbital ATK [OA] wants to use some 750 stored detached ballistic missile solid rocket motors for commercial launches, but a 17-year-old law precludes the government assets from being used for […]

The Air Force in July will begin testing a payload adapter for the RQ-4 Global Hawk that will allow it to carry the sensor that is currently carried by the […]

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) hopes to ramp up installation of its replacement for the Milstar satellite constellation, as reliability problems of the nuclear-survivable legacy system have slowed the follow-on’s procurement […]

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Tuesday downplayed the potential national security significance of NASA continuing payments to Russia to get astronauts to and from the […]