Air Force
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InternationalExecutive Branch Decisions on Ukraine Loom, Including New Starshield Contract and F-16 Upgrades
Executive branch decisions on Ukraine military aid lie ahead, including a new contract for SpaceX‘s [SPCX] Starshield military communications satellites and upgrades for Ukraine’s several dozen older F-16s by Lockheed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTown Halls for USAF LGM-35A Sentinel to Restart This Month
Town halls to gather community input on the U.S. Air Force’s future LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC] are to restart this month, as the service prepares a supplemental […]
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SpaceULA To Bring Payload Fairing Manufacturing for Vulcan In-House
Elon Musk’s SpaceX [SPCX] has made payload fairings for its rockets, including Falcon 9, at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, Calif. plant, and now competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) is bringing its fairings […]
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SpaceDIU Looks to Award Deorbit Demonstration Contract Next Month
The Pentagon is to make a downselect decision next month for a company’s orbital demonstration under the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)/Space Development Agency (SDA) Deorbit-as-a-Service (DaaS) program after a preliminary […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Cislunar Space System Under Consideration
The Department of the Air Force is considering a future Cislunar Space System (CSS) and eyeing the award of up to five preliminary design study contracts for five CSS satellites. […]
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Air ForceUSAF Looks to Advance STITCHES With Upcoming Contract to Lockheed Martin
The U.S. Air Force is looking to award Lockheed Martin [LMT] a sole source contract to advance the System-of-Systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (STITCHES). “The effort […]
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Air ForceFlight Demonstration of Frenzy 6 FAMM Candidate Engine Planned for Next Year
To meet projected demand for smaller drones and munitions, Beehive Industries, a propulsion startup firm, has developed a 100-pound version of the company’s Frenzy engine family, and the company said on […]
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SpaceBoeing To Receive Up to $945.9 Million Sole Source Contract for MILSATCOM Sustainment
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) is to award Boeing [BA] an up to $945.9 million contract to sustain company-built wideband and narrowband satellite communication systems, including Wideband Global […]
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Air ForceUSAF Eyes Early February for Contract Award for F-47 Nellis Site
The U.S. Air Force is eyeing Feb. 5 next year to award an other transactions agreement contract for a testing site at Nellis AFB, Nev., for the Boeing [BA] F-47 […]
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SpaceFirefly Aerospace Says Space Systems Command Using FORGE for WFOV Satellite
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command System Delta 84 has used the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) system developed by Firefly Aerospace‘s [FLY] SciTec subsidiary, according to the company. […]