Air Force
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Air ForceF-35 Strike Ends; Work To Resume Monday
The two-month long strike that has affected production at Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 plant in Fort Worth, Texas officially came to an end yesterday when the machinist union voted overwhelmingly […]
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Lawmakers Stand By DoD Budget Bill Obama Threatens To Veto
Key lawmakers predicted yesterday the House will make few changes to the Pentagon budget bill in two weeks, despite the White House’s opposition and Senate plans to advance a more-modest […]
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DoD Awards Rolls-Royce V-22 Engine Contract Worth Potentially $598 Million
The Defense Department recently awarded Rolls-Royce a contract worth potentially $598 million to put the company’s AE1107C engines on the Marine Corps and Air Force V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, a company spokesman […]
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DLA Already Moving Some Items Out of Afghanistan, Director Says
The director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said the agency is already beginning to move items out of Afghanistan ahead of the larger work expected as U.S. troops begin […]
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Air Force Awards Boeing $1.8 Billion Contract For Saudi Arabia F-15 Conversion Kits
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 […]
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Rolls-Royce Says Upgrade Will Increase Fuel Efficiency, Life Of T56 Engine
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 […]
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FAB-T Demonstrates Communications With On-Orbit AEHF Satellite
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 […]
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Lockheed Martin Awarded Italian Contract For Airborne ISR Lab
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. […]
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Air Force Needs To Improve Teaching Of Its Cyber History To Avoid Repeating Mistakes, Expert Says
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 […]
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When UAVs Were ‘Heresy’
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 […]