Air Force
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Air ForceKnowing Lower Level Suppliers Continues As Challenge for Department of the Air Force
The Department of the Air Force faces a continued challenge of knowing all of its lower level suppliers for weapon systems, according to service acquisition chief Andrew Hunter. “We share […]
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Air ForceAir Force Awards Virtualitics $46 Million To Bring AI To Weapons Maintenance
Virtualitics, a small company providing artificial intelligence readiness applications, has received a $46 million contract from the Air Force to deliver a maintenance solution in support of multiple weapon systems. […]
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Air ForceLeonardo’s BriteStorm May Be Future CCA Payload
The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program may be a fit for a five and a half pound BriteStorm stand-in jammer that Leonardo said that it is developing to […]
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Air ForceEarly Fuel System Inspection Helps Reduce B-2 PDM Time, USAF Says
U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers by Northrop Grumman [NOC] typically undergo a 470-day programmed depot maintenance (PDM) every nine years in Palmdale, Calif., to repair the bomber and […]
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Air ForceTarantulas and Asian Giant Hornets Subplot in RTX Settlement with DoJ
Tarantulas and Asian giant hornets in Taiwan are a subplot of a nearly $1 billion settlement RTX [RTX] reached last week with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Deterring a […]
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SpaceSpace Force to Highlight Decades of Contribution of Centaur III
U.S. Space Force (USSF) Col. Andrew Dermanoski, commander of Space Base Delta 3, is to host a ribbon cutting at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., on Friday for a Centaur III […]
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InternationalIAI Robotic Combat Task Force Unveiled, As Company Looks to U.S. Expansion
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled its Robotic Combat Task Force at the Association of the U.S. Army annual conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, as the company looks to expand […]
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Air ForceSikorsky Examining Role of Black Hawk in ‘Launched Effects’
The 2,135 U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks by Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Sikorsky may continue to be the work horse of the Army division, even as the service and Sikorsky work […]
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Business/FinancialBoeing CEO Plans to Lay off 10 Percent of Workers, Says Defense Unit’s Execution on Fixed Price Contracts ‘Not Where It Needs to Be’
The performance of Boeing‘s [BA] defense, space & security (BDS) unit on fixed price contracts needs to improve, Boeing CEO Robert “Kelly” Ortberg wrote in a Friday employee message released […]
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WeaponsMore Than $2 Billion in UAE/Saudi Arabia Foreign Arms Sales Approved by U.S. State Department
As the U.S. tries to deter Iran and its proxies, the U.S. State Department has approved more than $2 billion in foreign military sales (FMS) to Saudi Arabia and the […]
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