Air Force

The 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis AFB, Calif. became the sixth operating base for the Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker on July 28, as the wing received the 70th […]

The first B-21 Raider stealth bomber flight-test aircraft was successfully powered-on during the second quarter, a key milestone ahead of the initial flight that is expected during the second half […]

President Biden nominated U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Allvin as the service’s new uniformed head to replace Gen. Charles Q. Brown, whom Biden has nominated to […]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has used artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms developed for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)/U.S. Northern Command’s (NORTHCOM) Pathfinder initiative to identify drone targets, CENTCOM’s […]

The U.S. Air Force and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) are mum on the service’s fiscal 2024 budget request for and the testing of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/APG-85 […]

Under a Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite-Based Services program that may be worth $900 million, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command […]

U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) plans to award a contract next month to a small business to provide small unmanned aircraft systems for Air Force counter sUAS (C-sUAS) training. […]

Maxar Technologies said on July 24 that it has gone through a Critical Design Review (CDR) of the company’s Maxar 300 series bus for the L3Harris‘ [LHX] offering for the […]

As the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel prepares to mark up its version of the fiscal 2024 bill in the next two weeks, the U.S. Air Force is looking to […]

Reducing the vulnerability of U.S. satellites and ensuring military forces are able to operate without mission degradation is a continuous task and one that may gain insights from the U.S. […]