Air Force

The Air Force awarded BAE Systems a three-year contract to provide obsolescence management support for several complex systems and platforms, including aircraft, vehicles, machines, and electronics, the company said Monday. […]

The Defense Department is making strides toward streamlining acquisition milestone decisions, but needs to do better, a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said. GAO recommended DoD find and get […]

The Air Force is open to using Textron’s [TXT] Scorpion as its next close air support (CAS) platform, a top general said Friday, providing a boost to the company’s hopes […]

Air Force Secretary Deborah James on Friday vowed to protect the Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program, even if the service is forced to enact sequestration-related budget cuts. “Even if we […]

The chairman of the House defense appropriations committee warned senior Navy and Air Force officials this week that they will not be funded above the limits outlined in the 2011 […]

The Air Force in on track for its Space Fence initial operational capability (IOC) goal of fiscal year 2019, according to Air Force spokeswoman Tina Greer. Greer said Wednesday prime […]

Air Force Secretary Deborah James on Wednesday doubted the service would meet lawmakers’ 2019 deadline to develop a next-generation rocket engine. “To have that 2019 deadline there is pretty aggressive […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] AN/AAQ-28(v) LITENING targeting system pods have achieved two million operating hours, the company said on Tuesday. The AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING pod is a self-contained, multisensory system that allows […]

The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) being developed jointly by the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force and Navy conducted its third airborne-launched flight test earlier this month […]

Raytheon [RTN] and the Air Force successfully completed two Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) test flights recently that the company said demonstrated the weapon’s ability to detect, track and […]