Air Force

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration has awarded RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney  a $355 million performance-based logistics (PBL) contract to sustain the F100 engine for the country’s F-16 and […]

Kratos [KTOS] is folding in the work that the company has done on the XQ-58A Valkyrie for the U.S. Air Force Skyborg program into offerings for the service’s Collaborative Combat […]

Companies are raising questions with the U.S. Space Force about a future Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR). “At the Schriever [Space Force Base, Colo.] wargames, as we were playing through […]

U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael “Mini” Minihan said on Feb. 14 that he is focusing on his “25 by 25” initiative in his six remaining months as the head of […]

Small kamikaze drones have been a worry for U.S. commanders–most recently in a deadly attack on the U.S. Tower 22 base in northeast Jordan near Syria on Jan. 28. While […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] will upgrade the Air Force’s fleet of LITENING targeting pods with a new large aperture (LA) pod that increases the range for aircrews to detect, track, identify, […]

The U.S. Air Force may narrow the field of five contractor teams for the first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) technology effort to two to three in the next several months. […]

The U.S. Space Force wants the upcoming VICTUS HAZE demonstration to point toward future satellite launches within hours, not days, of order receipt. As part of a Space Force effort […]

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall on Feb. 12 urged companies to help the Department of the Air Force solve its operational problems, in part through boosting industry internal […]

The grounding of the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force V-22 fleet since early December is unlikely to lift soon, as DoD officials consider what measures to take for crew […]