Air Force

Pentagon officials plan to meet with the contractor building the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine about its proposal to self-fund the embattled program, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said yesterday. […]

The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said yesterday he still sees a need for a second F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine despite the current fiscal pressures on […]

The U.S. defense budget may be shrinking but some companies see opportunity as U.K.-based Roke Manor Research said it formed a partnership with its U.S.-based sister company, Non-Intrusive Inspection Technology […]

Boeing [BA] yesterday said the Air Force awarded it a one-year, $2.9 million contract to develop and validate a modification of the A-10 aircraft’s Digital Video Audio Data Recorder (DVADR). […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] say they are on schedule to demonstrate their respective radar systems competing for the Air Force’s next contract for a new generation of space […]

General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems yesterday said it was awarded a potential $900 million contract for next generation antennas from the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program Office at Hanscom […]

The Bell Boeing V-22 program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter [TXT] and Boeing [BA], yesterday said it received a $34 million order from the  Air Force for three new […]

A unit of Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered 16 new antennas that will be installed on two of the next generation of Air Force Global Positioning Unit satellites, the company […]

Hawkish House members who resisted Pentagon spending reductions in the new deficit-cutting law are using a new report on China’s increasing military might to bolster their stance against additional sizable military […]

The Pentagon believes China could have an indigenous aircraft carrier in 2015 and fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter jet in 2018, after overcoming obstacles with both development efforts, according to a […]