Air Force

House and Senate negotiators are likely to file a final FY ’12 defense appropriations bill by day’s end that provides the Pentagon a $5 billion boost in funding over last […]

The Pentagon on Friday issued a contract for Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the fifth low-rate initial-production (LRIP 5) contract for the construction of 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The Pentagon […]

House and Senate lawmakers continued to hash out the final versions of the two Pentagon budget bills yesterday in hopes of wrapping up the delayed measures–which dictate the fate of […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered the first Senior Scout signals intelligence system configured for the C-130J to the Air Force, the company said yesterday. The first of four Senior Scout […]

SCHOTT North America Inc. (SCHOTT) yesterday said it is kicking off production of chalcogenide glasses for infrared (IR) sensing applications, produced for the first time in the United States. To […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the construction of 18 F-16s that will be turned over to the Iraqi government under the Foreign […]

The Air Force ordered immediate inspections this week of the backup oxygen units fielded on F-22 Raptor as it continues to grapple with oxygen supply issues behind groundings of the […]

NASA programs need to be consistently supported to keep costs stable on programs associated with national security, Michael Gass, the president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance, said yesterday. […]

Moving into 2012, a number of important electronic warfare programs are moving forward,  an ITT Exelis [XLS] executive said. “There’s no place I’d rather be in the defense world than […]

The first commander of the U.K. Joint Forces Command has taken up the job: Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach took over Dec. 1. Peach will be responsible for commanding […]