Air Force

Proposed limitations on the Pentagon’s controversial alternative-fuel development efforts added to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) new defense bill only narrowly passed the panel and were opposed by its […]

A Senate panel approved legislation yesterday that demands information from the Obama administration on potential budget cuts and reverses the Pentagon’s plans for everything from retiring Air National Guard planes […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) testbed aircraft, equipped with a new JT-8D propulsion system, successfully completed flight testing, according to a company statement. […]

The Air Force is restructuring its Network Integration Center (AFNIC) by divesting cyberspace lead command functions to the service’s Space Command (AFSPC) to allow AFNIC to focus on its “core […]

Boeing [BA] recently awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide a high-integrity Actuator Control Unit (ACU) to help control the refueling boom in the Air Force’s KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, […]

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 […]