Air Force

Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) decommissioned the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) December 6, according to a service statement. The CHIRP sensor, designed and built by Leidos […]

The Defense Department should reexamine its return on investment with its intelligence agency spending before it slashes spending from critical accounts, according to a former Air Force chief of staff. […]

All three legs of the nuclear triad are “aging into obsolescence” just as defense budgets are facing steep cuts, but the Defense Department should still make room in the budget […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday that it has been awarded $81 million for Command and Control (C2) upgrades to the Air Force’s Air Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System modernization program. […]

Embraer [ERJ] will start assembling its A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft for the Air Force’s Light Air Support (LAS) program in January, according to a Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] successfully conducted a high-fidelity virtual aerial refueling demonstration, networking geographically-dispersed flight simulators and providing a realistic simulation of an air-to-air refueling process, according to a company statement. […]

Boeing’s [BA] Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) development program has completed the functional qualification testing phase for the protected wideband satellite communications system, according to a company statement. […]

Despite fears that a lack of flying hours and a hiring binge would drive Air Force pilots to commercial airliners, 67 percent of Air Force pilots offered aviator retention pay […]

The Air Force formally announced Friday it is going with Sikorsky for the potentially $6.8 billion Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program. “We received one proposal,” Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Erika […]

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] prototype for the Air Force’s next generation of GPS proved that it will be able to communicate with the existing GPS satellite constellation, the company said yesterday. […]