Air Force

Will the U.S. Air Force need to build new ICBM “launch facilities”–siloes–to accommodate the LGM-35A Sentinel? “Looks to me like they’re going to have to,” says Sen. Angus King (I-Me.), […]

RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Tuesday that it has received an award from Boeing [BA] for Advanced Concept Ejection Seat IIs (ACES IIs) for the U.S. Air Force’s two-seat […]

Simplifying DoD program requirements as part of an effort to spur more companies to make defense systems is a priority for Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management and […]

Castelion Corp. last week said it successfully completed another flight test of a prototype hypersonic missile the startup is developing to provide the Defense Department with affordable long-range strike weapons […]

General Electric [GE] and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney have reported progress in their Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) efforts for the U.S. Air Force’s manned Next Generation Air Dominance […]

Upgrade of Cavalier Space Force Station, N.D.’s AN/FPQ-16 Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS) radar, originally built by General Electric [GE] in the 1970s, is a provision in a […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) wants to hear from companies on their capacity to provide joint hub (JH) hardware spares for the future Protected Tactical Enterprise System (PTES), […]

Locating and jamming Russian and Chinese mobile surface-to-air missile radars in a defense of the Baltic states and Taiwan could become easier with allied use of 4G and 5G cellular […]

U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) said on Wednesday that it conducted a routine, reliability flight test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile at 1 a.m. Pacific […]

The Boeing [BA] and Leonardo MH-139A Grey Wolf has begun initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E), the U.S. Air Force said. “Three MH-139 IOT&E flights took place during the week […]