Air Force

Australian-based HEO has awarded BlackSky [BKSY] a “seven figure data services contract” to improve space domain awareness for defense, intelligence, and commercial users, the companies said on Thursday. “Under the […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—L3Harris Technologies [LHX] said that its site in Clifton, N.J., several weeks ago began the build of 166 AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield all-digital electronic warfare (EW) suites for F-16 […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Merlin, a small company developing autonomous capabilities for military aviation, this week said it has launched a new business unit that expands its focus beyond the routine functions […]

The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is flying two sorties per week of the “production representative” test Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber as the service aims to move […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–As the F-35 program aims to deliver a “fully combat capable” fighter next year with the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) software upgrade–the foundation for dozens of envisioned Block 4 […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) fleet of 51 Bell [TXT]-Boeing [BA] CV-22 tiltrotors may be flying without restrictions by the end of this year or […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A network of low-cost acoustic sensors developed and in use by Ukrainian forces to detect and counter low flying one-way drones launched by Russian forces is so effective […]

Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force has projected that it will finish an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) this fall on the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) to succeed the […]