Air Force

Despite the decision this week by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) to cancel a conference in Huntsville, Alabama in late March because of COVID-19 risks cited by […]

This year, Boeing [BA] is redesigning a drain tube for its KC-46A Pegasus tanker for the U.S. Air Force and is working with General Electric [GE] to resolve a flight […]

Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] said on Jan. 26 that its plant in Amarillo, Texas has completed the first nacelle improvements on a U.S. Air Force CV-22 special operations helicopter by […]

The State Department approved two Foreign Military Sales (FMSs) to Egypt worth a combined $2.5 billion on Jan. 25 for 12 C-130J Super Hercules aircrafts and three SPS-48 Land Based […]

While the most recently released mission capable (MC) rates for the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C are below 60 percent, the program said that it has more than satisfied the nine […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is to receive a five-year U.S. Air Force contract to conduct any needed repairs of Weapon System Control Console (WSCC) line replaceable units for the Boeing [BA] […]

The U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command launched the fifth and sixth Northrop Grumman [NOC] Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded five commercial radar contracts to Airbus‘ U.S. division; San Francisco-based Capella Space; Finland-based ICEYE’s U.S. division; Florida-based PredaSAR Corp.; and Santa Barbara-based Umbra […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) may move to schedule roll call votes by the start of February for less than a dozen DoD nominees placed on hold by Sen. […]

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned on Jan. 19 against the United States mirror imaging Chinese hypersonic weapon efforts. “We don’t have the same target set that they’re worried about […]