Air Force

While the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act and both the House and Senate versions of the fiscal 2025 defense appropriations bill approved Air Force funding for seven low-rate initial […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall cautioned on Monday that, while the service may reap some programmatic savings, most cost reductions, such as those sought by the incoming Department of […]

OJ Sanchez has succeeded John Clark as the vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, and Mike Shoemaker has stepped into the shoes of Sanchez as the […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Monday that a manned Next Generation Air Dominance fighter would require more than $20 billion extra in research and development (R&D), as […]

Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] said that it has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL)-Beta program. “This […]

The bill introduced by Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) on Dec. 19th contains provisions that may favor defense start-ups and non-traditional defense contractors, such as Palantir […]

A question mark for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company’s satellites would link with other companies’ birds, but […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $616 million cost-plus contract through Dec. 31, 2030 for full rate production (FRP) of the AN/ALQ-250 F-15 Eagle Passive Active […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has finished building and testing the company’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Rapid Prototype (PTS-P) payload and has delivered it to the company’s Gilbert, […]

The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., may extend planned, Boeing [BA] sustainment work for the B61-12 to the B61-13, which the company is developing. […]