Air Force

The F-35 strike fighter aircraft program will be subject to the same cuts as other defense programs under the budget sequester, the Defense Department’s Budget Chief told a House panel […]

Embraer [ERJ] said Friday it signed a 10-year lease on a 40,000 square foot facility at Jacksonville International Airport, Fla., where it will produce its A-29 Super Tucano light attack […]

The Air Force Friday directed Sierra Nevada Defense Corp. (SNC) to re-start work on the $427.5 million Light Air Support (LAS) program despite a protest by losing bidder Beechcraft. Beechcraft […]

The Air Force said yesterday it awarded Boeing [BA] a $3.5 billion contract modification for F-15S to SA conversion kits. In addition to the conversion kits, Boeing will produce technical […]

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $253 million contract to begin work on F-15SA pilot and maintenance training systems for the Royal Saudi Air Force, according to a […]

The Defense Department “radically” changed and improved how it designs, tests and delivers F-35 software increments, going from a rate of one increment every 30 days to every three days, […]

The head of the military’s Cyber Command yesterday disclosed that the Defense Department is in the process of creating and training its core set of teams that would operate in […]

Keeping the F-35’s development program healthy in this age of budget uncertainty is probably the Defense Department’s biggest priority, according to key Air Force general. Office of the Assistant Secretary […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) […]

Despite being on the right path, the F-35’s affordability, or the ability to acquire aircraft in quantity and to sustain them over the life cycle, is of paramount concern, the […]