Air Force
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Air ForceTo Help Meet USAF Demand, PBS Aerospace Plans To More Than Double Small Turbojet Engine Capacity
PBS Aerospace, the U.S. subsidiary of the Czech-based PBS Group, plans to increase its production capacity for turbojet engines from 2,000 this year to 5,000 next year at its Roswell, […]
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Air ForcePrototype, Modular Silo For Sentinel To Aid Construction “At Scale”
Testing of Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] and Bechtel‘s prototype missile silo for the U.S. Air Force LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM is to demonstrate a modular design that the service and industry […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySpace Force May Need Uptick In Wallops Island Launches Due To Commercial Demand
While the Space Force has used NASA’s site at Wallops Island, Va., to launch niche missions, including small-satellite orbital and sounding rocket hypersonic suborbital launches, the service may need to […]
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SpaceUpgrading Current GPS Ground System “Now a Viable Option,” As GPS OCX Problems Continue, Space Official Says
Upgrades to the GPS ground system–the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP)–is an option under consideration by the Defense Department’s space acquisition chief, as problems continue in fielding the GPS Next Generation […]
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SpaceSpace Systems Command Conducts VICTUS DIEM Tactically Responsive Space Exercise
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC), Lockheed Martin [LMT], and Firefly Aerospace [FLY] conducted the VICTUS DIEM tactically responsive space exercise late last year and early this year, according […]
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Air ForceAFRL’s Rapid Innovation Center Looks For Range Of Autonomous Point Defense Counters Against Group 1, 2 Drones
Under the Automated Counter-UAS Expeditionary Solutions (ACES) effort, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Rapid Innovation Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is surveying companies on their technologies for autonomous, point […]
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Air ForceRecruitment And Retention Of Contracting Officers Key, As DAF Examines Incentives
As Golden Dome and other modernization programs face a flood of new funding in a possibly $500 billion requested increase for the Defense Department in fiscal 2027, the Department of […]
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WeaponsNo Estimate From Military Officials On Future Percentage Of Low-Cost Munitions For DoD
The Pentagon’s recently formed Munitions Acceleration Council, chaired by Deputy Defense Secretary Steven Feinberg, has eyed a doubling or quadrupling of production for about a dozen munitions viewed by the […]
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SpaceNext SDA Tranche 1 Launches Likely In May Or June, Director Says
The Space Development Agency (SDA) had planned to resume Tranche 1 launches early this year, but is in a “strategic pause” that is to end with the next launches in […]
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Air ForceSpace Force Holding Reverse Industry Day For Evolved Strategic SATCOM
The U.S. Space Force is meeting with companies this week in the Washington, D.C., area for an Evolved Strategic satellite communication (ESS) reverse industry day–the latter a term for companies […]