Air Force

The Air Force will rely on a blend of manned and unmanned tactical aviation for “at least this generation” because of the need for planes that can survive contested airspace, […]

Pentagon and congressional stakeholders should re-evaluate the Air Force’s decision to cancel the Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aerial system (UAS) in favor of the legacy U-2 spy plane because […]

The Air Force and Boeing [BA] completed the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker’s preliminary design review (PDR) Exit Criteria Review Friday, but not the PDR itself, according to a Air Force […]

The Air Force wants information from industry for a system to passively extract and convert weather data from AN/TPS-75 radar into weather radar imagery, according to an April 30 Request […]

Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) and the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System and its Lockheed Martin [LMT] PAC-3 missile demonstrated the […]

A House panel is largely supporting the Pentagon’s proposal for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which the military already has called for slowing to allow for more-complete testing. The […]

The Air Force awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $191 million firm-fixed-price contract to procure the Multi-Spectral Targeting System Model B (MTS-B) turret and high definition electronic units, according to a Defense […]

The Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) enterprise 13-to-15 years from now will be a network-centric environment due to potential adversaries moving to anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), according to a […]

A House panel will weigh a plan today to alter controversial weapons changes the Pentagon proposed by requiring the military to keep vehicle production lines running and salvaging an unmanned […]

Boeing [BA] expects the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker’s preliminary design review (PDR) to be completed by the end of the week, according to CEO James McNerney, who disclosed the information […]