Air Force

By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon leaders warned Senate appropriators yesterday that multiple defense initiatives– including buying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)–would be jeopardized if Congress skips over passing a base defense appropriations […]

By Emelie Rutherford The dual-year war-supplemental bill House and Senate lawmakers are expected to address next week includes at least $42 billion for buying systems including F/A-18 Super Hornet strike […]

By Emelie Rutherford Three House panels yesterday recommended changes to the White House’s proposed defense budget including tacking on up to four additional Navy ships, calling for irregular- warfare organizational […]

By Geoff Fein Defense officials are beginning a review of the roles and missions of the armed forces that will explore how the services handle unmanned aerial systems (UAS), intra-theater […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to take up a $183.69 billion multi-year war-supplemental funding bill as soon as tomorrow that would not include any additional money for the […]

By Emelie Rutherford If the Air Force’s contested tanker contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and a European partner is overturned, it will be a "disaster" for efforts to accelerate cooperation […]

The Pentagon Friday certified a restructured program for Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The restructured program consists of two separate increments: the JASSM Baseline increment and the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has joined a team lead by Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for a follow-on Air Force contract for mission enterprise control support for Global Positioning System (GPS) […]

Aerojet [GY] yesterday announced it recently completed a successful full-duration development test firing of its innovative Axial HAN Thruster for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Raytheon‘s [RTN] Net-Centric Airborne […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) deems successful it’s ability to shorten the sensor-to-shooter link in its portion of the Air Force’s Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) […]