Air Force

On Wednesday, the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) is to launch 21 York Space Systems‘ satellites–the first that are to provide utility for fielded military forces in the […]

Albuquerque’s Applied Research Associates (ARA) is to work with Boeing [BA] over the next two years to design, build, and test subscale and full scale prototypes of a Next Generation […]

As part of an effort to field more affordable, counter drone systems, the U.S. Air Force in April issued a relatively small, $1.6 million contract to BAE Systems‘ site in […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to replace the Alaska Warning System’s/North Warning System’s (NWS) 27 AN/FPS-117 radomes–15 in Alaska, one in Utah, one in Hawaii, and 10 in Canada. A […]

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.—Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS) for U.S. Army helicopters includes a two-color display, long wave infrared, one megapixel camera. The features are to allow spotting […]

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.—Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] ultra-wideband architecture AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters received $187 million in the fiscal 2025 reconciliation law and […]

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.—Northrop Grumman [NOC] is upgrading its LITENING pods–a modernization effort that may poise the company for a significant system production ramp-up. Northrop Grumman and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense […]

U.S. Space Force’s 30th Security Forces Squadron (30th SFS) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., plans to sole source a firm fixed price buy of three Dronebuster handheld, non-kinetic counter-small […]

North Korea represents the highest small drone threat to U.S. operations in the Indo-Pacific, according to the top U.S. Air Force official in the region. During a Mitchell Institute for […]

BAE Systems on Aug.28 won a $1.74 billion contract vehicle for production and delivery of up to 55,000 full rate production lots 13 to 17 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System […]