Air Force

While the Pentagon has undertaken 11 alternatives to GPS efforts, DoD’s Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Oversight Council has emphasized the envisioned move to the anti-jamming, anti-spoofing, encrypted M-code signal […]

The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM with a test re-entry vehicle on Aug. 16 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]

The U.S. Air Force is to discuss threats to its supply chain and possible mitigation measures when Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) hosts a supply chain risk management forum for […]

The U.S. Air Force has finished examining cartridge actuated devices (CADs) on Martin-Baker Mk16-US16E ejection seats for most of the service’s 349 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A fighters and has given […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a more than $7.6 billion contract for 129 F-35 fighters in Lot 15–49 F-35As for the U.S. Air Force; three F-35Bs and 10 F-35Cs for […]

The U.S. Air Force may issue a set of requirements for the commercial derivative KC-Y tanker this fall, followed by an acquisition decision next spring. “We’re waiting for requirements to […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said that his top technology priority is “autonomous behaviors and artificial intelligence decision support,” and he has suggested that the F-35 fighter and […]

As the U.S. Air Force looks to operate effectively from sparse areas under the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept, the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) for the service’s Lockheed Martin […]

The U.S. Air Force may deliver a Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) on the B-52H Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) in the coming weeks. Last September, the Air Force awarded Rolls-Royce a contract […]

Semiconductors are critical for modern weapons. The Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 has more than 3,000 computer chips, while the company’s CH-53K helicopter for the U.S. Marine Corps has more than […]