Air Force

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–While the U.S. Air Force has budgeted $522 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) in fiscal 2024 and discussed the program in fairly broad terms, the future CCA […]

First flight of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider is still a go for this year, the U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman said on Sept. 13. Six B-21s have […]

The Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) is the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) top acquisition priority, as the command seeks to move beyond its current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance […]

As the Air Force looks to retire some of its legacy intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms, the nominee to be the service’s next chief of staff said Tuesday he wants […]

BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Tuesday said they have delivered the first of 10 EC-37B Compass Call electronic attack aircraft to the Air Force. The EA-37B, which is […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Conducting battle management from a cockpit or a command-and-control aircraft is nothing new but the coming introduction of long-range jet-powered drones that will work with manned platforms amid […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of a fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill would put the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in three cost target categories […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force and Space Force have begun a broad review of how they fulfil their basic missions in support of the combatant commands and the joint force […]

Military planners are starting to include logistics command and control in the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, a top commander said on Sept. 11. U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is […]

Delays in the test flight certification of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket’s Centaur V upper stage will not result in any extra launches for SpaceX for the U.S. […]