Air Force

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) member Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) Wednesday placed a hold on the confirmation of Deborah James becoming the next Air Force secretary, according to an Ayotte aide. […]

The Air Force yesterday, for the second time in less than a week, successfully test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to a service statement. […]

Another operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM is scheduled for Thursday morning between 6:01 a.m. and 12:01 p.m. EDT from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to the Air […]

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite prototype communicated with Raytheon’s [RTN] GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) for the first time in August during a series of […]

The Air Force completed the first unmanned QF-16 full scale aerial target flight earlier this month, starting a two-year process to phase out the QF-4 aerial target. Two Air Force […]

The Bell Helicopter-Boeing [BA] tandem that develops the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey helped create an air filter-like device that could “double or triple” the lives of V-22 engines by filtering out […]

Exelis [XLS] said yesterday its work developing the navigation payload for the Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite system has resolved “most issues,” one week after the […]

The South Korean government has rejected Boeing‘s[BA] bid to supply 60 F-15E Silent Eagles, dealing a massive blow to the defense giant and opening the door to Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] […]

The Air Force successfully test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM Sunday from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to a service statement. The Air Force said it will next test launch […]

The Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), major stakeholders in the Minuteman III follow-on ICBM study, need to better coordinate their efforts to provide cost estimates for […]