Air Force

Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments […]

By Emelie Rutherford A long-awaited mobility-capabilities study that could indicate if the Pentagon wants to order more C-17 airlifters, among other matters, will reach the Office of the Secretary of […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s main defense budget writer wants to direct the Air Force in the upcoming war-funding bill to buy refueling tankers from both firms battling for the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a key House panel reiterated his call yesterday for the Pentagon to buy versions of the Air Force’s new aerial refueling tanker from both […]

Russia is developing an anti-satellite capability, The International Herald Tribune reported, quoting a Russian official. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Valentin Popovkin said Russia can’t remain idle while China and the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Watchers of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-22 stealth fighter program hoping to learn by March 1 if the Obama administration plans to continue or terminate the jet’s production […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and industry develop new ship self defense systems to counter advances in anti-ship cruise missiles, it’s up to PMA-208 to find ways to represent […]

Betting On Super Bowl Rivals The Missile Defense Budget; Pornography Spending Equals Recent NASA Budgets The United States fails to provide adequate funding for major space, missile defense and weapons […]

Defense procurement programs face huge budget cuts, not only in fiscal 2010 but even more in 2011 and the out years, with an immense array of programs in each of […]

By Ann Roosevelt Facing the complexity and uncertainty of military operations in the 21st century, the military must make superiority in irregular warfare a core capability, according to a top […]