Air Force

The Government Accountability Office has set aside protests filed by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] after the Air Force pledged to review its decision to award the contract […]

REDONDO BEACH, Calif.—Northrop Grumman [NOC] will bid for both the Air Force’s and Navy’s sixth-generation fighter jet programs and has already assembled teams working toward winning those contracts. Northrop Grumman […]

Japan has announced that it plans to buy E-2D early warning and command and control aircraft and the Global Hawk for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions as part of an […]

The Air Force is assembling a strategic master plan focused on science and technology (S&T) that the service’s chief of staff said can change the way the Air Force does […]

The Air Force’s fiscal year 2016 budget proposal could be more than permitted by Budget Control Act, or sequestration, caps, service Secretary Deborah James said Jan. 15. James declined to […]

Air Force Secretary Deborah James said she selected former chief of staff and retired Gen. Larry Welch to lead an independent review of the service’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) […]

The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $964 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ground subsystems support, the Defense Department said on Wednesday. The support work is […]

The Air Force and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) are headed to mediation this month after a federal judge Wednesday denied contractor United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Jan. 7 motion to […]

The Air Force is applying a new initiative designed to “bend the cost curve,” while accelerating acquisition, to at least three programs, service secretary Deborah James said Wednesday. James said at […]

One of the losers of a competition for a potential multi-billion dollar Air Force space launch range support contract asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Dec. 18 to reconsider its […]