Air Force

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is making awards to multiple companies under a $400 million contract for the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research program. “The primary objective of […]

Gross Issue Effectiveness (GIE) and Supply Response Time (SRT) for the on-time delivery of required spare parts are to be  key features of a Performance-Based Logistics contract that the F-35 […]

The U.S. Air Force may decide this summer on a buy of up to 75 tankers to fill the gap between the planned fielding of the 179th Boeing [BA] KC-46A […]

The U.S. Space Force intends to field “birth to death” tracking of hypersonic missiles for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) by 2030, Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson […]

Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, the head of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), said on Apr. 4 that the F-35C has seen a “significant improvement” in mission capable and availability rates […]

A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule last year is likely to spur demand for commercial deorbiting systems that may help declutter parts of low Earth orbit (LEO), Space Development Agency […]

BAE Systems said on Apr. 3 that it has received $491 million from Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare systems for Block 4 F-35s in Lot 17. On […]

Boeing [BA] said on March 31 that the U.S. Air Force has awarded the company a $184 million Block 1 upgrade contract to install advanced communications on the KC-46A Pegasus. […]

The U.S. Air Force’s renewed request to retire the 32 Block 20 F-22 fighters accounts for more than $400 million of the service’s $2.3 billion request in fiscal 2024 for […]

The U.S. Air Force said that it is considering reuse of the previous Over the Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) radar sites to augment the U.S.-Canadian North Warning System (NWS). In fiscal […]