Air Force

Defense Department researchers yesterday said they made a giant leap toward increasing satellite throughput by successfully transmitting an unprecedented 1.3 gigabit per second (Gbps) carrier signal via the Wideband Global […]

Congressional investigators said the Pentagon and defense industry are not doing enough to stop fake electronics parts they found on connected to weapon systems including the P-8A and C-27J aircraft, […]

The Air Force is soliciting proposals from industry for its Orbital/Suborbital launch services program (OSP-3), according to a notice listed on Federal Business Opportunities. The OSP-3 solicitation seeks to competitively […]

Air Force senior logistics leaders will soon focus on “fully implementing” Repair Network Integration (RNI), or the service’s way of bringing together the entire repair network of defense systems, according […]

The Pentagon’s proposed “block buy” of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELV) from United Launch Alliance (ULA) will perpetuate a “long-term, high-cost monopoly” and will “seriously inhibit” the prospects for effective […]

The House passed a measure to make it easier for U.S. firms to export satellite technology when it began tweaking a massive $554 billion Pentagon policy bill yesterday. The export-related […]

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Pentagon budget writers in the House want to spare the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program from major changes, proposing only modest cuts to the program and including no commentary on […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is limiting F-22 fighter jet flights to the “proximity of potential landing locations” indefinitely, the Pentagon said yesterday. DoD spokesman George Little said during a briefing […]

The White House threated yesterday to veto the Pentagon policy bill the House is slated to start debating today, saying it adds too much funding to the president’s proposal and […]