Air Force

The Defense Department said Tuesday it awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.8 billion contract to provide Saudi Arabia with upgrade kits to convert its F-15s to its F-15SA variant. The sole-source […]

A Rolls-Royce executive said yesterday the company has achieved significant improvement in its T56 engine series 3.5 upgrade program. Tom Hartmann, Rolls-Royce senior vice president of government programs, told reporters […]

Boeing [BA] said it successfully demonstrated end-to-end communication using a terminal from the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) system and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. This […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said yesterday it signed an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Defense to provide an Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML) aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. […]

A leading cyber expert said the Air Force needs to do a better job of teaching its cyber history and build “cyber-mindedness” so it doesn’t repeat its mistakes. “We need […]

Sierra Nevada Corp. said on Tuesday it submitted the final component of its response to the Air Force’s Request For Proposals (RFP) for its Light Air Support (LAS) for Afghanistan […]

The Air Force’s competition to upgrade the radars on its F-16 fighter jets comes down to two radar heavyweights: Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC]. With the Air Force announcing […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday it received an $87.8 million foreign military sales (FMS) contract to provide Thailand, Iraq and Oman with its APG-68(V)9 airborne fire control radar for use […]

Applying new technology requires an open mind. That was a point highlighted yesterday by Ken Gabriel, the acting chief of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. During […]

The Air Force said Friday it expects to release the draft request for proposals (RFP) for its F-16 radar modernization program on, or near, Aug. 1. The service also said […]