Air Force

The Air Force plans to work with Northrop Grumman [NOC] to perform sensor suite sustainment on the service’s two OC-135B Open Skies reconnaissance aircraft beginning in 2020, according to an […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Air Force Space Command expects to release this year a new strategy for the service’s future satellite communications architecture to address lawmakers’ longtime concerns about stove-piped […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Should Congress approve the creation of a new Space Force under the Air Force, the service plans to begin standing up the new branch within 90 […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The leader of the new Space Development Agency (SDA) unveiled April 9 a notional future space architecture that the agency plans to develop over the next […]

Air Force officials told a Senate panel on Tuesday the plan to procure over 80 F-15EXs over the next five years is required to keep up with an operational pace […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Air Force is ready to resume deliveries of its new KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft as soon as Boeing [BA] completes the latest and most […]

The White House nominated Air Force Gen. John Hyten to be vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, opening up a vacancy at both the nation’s top nuclear command […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Northrop Grumman [NOC] is moving ahead on schedule to field its new OmegA rocket by 2021 in hopes that the Air Force will select it as […]

Harris Corp. [HRS] has received $84 million to produce an experimental satellite dubbed Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) that will demonstrate new position, navigation and timing capabilities that could improve the […]

Lawmakers in both chambers continued to press Air Force leadership this week on the service’s decision to include eight F-15EX aircraft in its fiscal year 2020 proposed budget. Multiple members […]