Air Force
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SpaceNew Electro-Optical Commercial Services Program Advised by Senate Defense Appropriators
Senate defense appropriators want to create a new electro-optical commercial services program that would have at least $100 million in annual funding starting in fiscal 2027. The move comes amid […]
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Air ForceBig Department of Air Force Plus Ups from SAC-D Include C-130J; JASSM; EA-37B; Tranche 3, Transport Layer
The largest U.S. Air Force aircraft procurement program dollar increase advised by the Senate Appropriations Committee defense panel’s (SAC-D) fiscal 2026 report is $1.7 billion for Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130Js, […]
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Air ForceNo Explanation Yet from DoD or USAF on Classification Justification for Qatari Jet Program
The Qatari gift of a Boeing [BA] 747-8i luxury airliner to the U.S. for use as Air Force One was a gift that President Trump welcomed, at least in part […]
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Air ForceMerlin to Integrate Its Mission Autonomy Software Onto Northrop Grumman M437
Boston-based Merlin said on Wednesday that it is to integrate its Merlin Pilot autonomy software for Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Beacon testbed project using the Scaled Composites Model 437 (M437) aircraft. […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Announces Completion of First Qualification Test of Sentinel Stage-Two Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Tuesday that the company and the U.S. Air Force completed the first qualification test of a stage-two solid rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel Intercontinental […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Announces Up to $4 Billion in Awards for PTS-G
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is awarding contracts worth up to $4 billion for the Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) program to Boeing [BA], Northrop Grumman [NOC], Viasat [VSAT], […]
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Air ForceUSAF Command and Control Head Urges Acceleration of TOC-L Effort
Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] said last week that the U.S. Air Force had awarded the company a $315 million contract for their collaboration on Phase II of a prototype Tactical […]
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SpaceLaunch of Eighth X-37B Mission Planned for Aug. 21
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the Boeing [BA] X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.–an eighth X-37B mission […]
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Air ForceGAO Finds DoD Has Not Identified Lower-Tier Suppliers; Discloses DoD Looked Into Chinese Robotic Arms on F-35 Assembly Line
An omniscient portrait of the more than 200,000 DoD suppliers to spot suspicious foreign companies is not on the books, as lower tier suppliers remain hidden–a cloaking helped by the […]
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Air ForceSenate GOP Spread Puts Lohmeier Over the Top
On a 52 to 46 party line vote on Thursday, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Matthew Lohmeier as the 29th Undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force–the service’s number two civilian. Sens. […]