Air Force

The federal government needs to step up to the challenge and fully fund myriad defense programs, specifically including procurement of ships, tanks, planes, missiles and more, the Aerospace Industries Association […]

By Ann Roosevelt ATK [ATK] continues modernizing the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., even as the plant produces about 1.4 billion cartridges a year as the primary […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Air Force yesterday submitted its formal response to Boeing’s [BA] protest of the service’s tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC]. "The initial portion of the […]

By Emelie Rutherford A quartet of lawmakers sent Air Force leaders a letter last week suggesting the service pursue a new fighter-jet strategy to ensure it can fulfill its Air […]

By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon acquisition executive John Young last week signed a memo approving the purchased of six conventional-takeoff-and-landing F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the Air Force, a source familiar […]

By Emelie Rutherford Former Pentagon acquisition chief Jacques Gansler said Congress should not "meddle" in the Air Force’s contested tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and foreign partner European […]

The Air Force does not yet know if a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle that ran off a runway in Iraq recently week can be repaired, or what caused the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The trio of contractors vying for the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) replacement helicopter contract plan to submit feedback to the Air Force this week on the […]

Officials steering the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program said signs are good for Japan joining the aircraft effort, and predicted partner nations Norway and Denmark will not drop their […]

By Emelie Rutherford An Air Force official told Senate authorizers yesterday that a decision on whether to keep open the F-22 Raptor production line needs to be made by November, […]