Air Force
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Air ForceB-52 Radar Modernization Program in Significant Nunn-McCurdy Breach
Unit costs for the U.S. Air Force B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) have increased to 15 percent over the baseline–a status that represents a significant Nunn-McCurdy breach. The Air Force […]
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Air ForceUSAF ‘Driving Toward’ 465 Tankers, As Service Accounts for 18-Month RVS 2.0 Delay for KC-46
U.S. Transportation Command needs some 465 tankers, according to its Mobility Capabilities Study, as the U.S. Air Force looks to fix five Category 1 deficiencies on its Boeing [BA] KC-46A […]
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Air ForceCalvert: ‘We Can’t Afford a Repeat of the F-35 Program’
The U.S. Air Force F-47 future manned fighter by Boeing [BA] should take lessons learned from the Air Force/Navy/Marine Corps program for the Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-35, Rep. Ken Calvert […]
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Air ForceUSAF Awards ALQ-172 Field Engineering Services’ Follow-On to L3Harris for B-52s
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] recently received a more than $5.5 million U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) follow-on field engineering services contract for the company’s ALQ-172 electronic countermeasures system on B-52H […]
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Navy/USMCV-22 Official Expects Normal Ospreys Ops Return By End Of 2026 After Fixes
The V-22 Joint Program Office manager expects the Ospreys to finally move back to unrestricted flight operations by the end of 2026 once several component changes to improve safety are […]
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Air ForceAir Force Taps Ursa Major To Integrate Tactical Flight Demonstrator For Hypersonic Uses
The Air Force Research Laboratory last Thursday awarded Ursa Major a $28.6 million contract to serve as the integrator of a tactical flight demonstrator that will be powered by the […]
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Air ForceNuclear Modernization and Space Resilience Top Challenges Lohmeier Says He Plans to Address
Nuclear modernization, including the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel future ICBM, and space resilience are top Department of the Air Force challenges that Matthew Lohmeier, the nominee for undersecretary of […]
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Air ForceBeale AFB to Be Deployment Center for CCA, As USAF Begins Ground Tests
Beale AFB, Calif.–the home of the U-2 surveillance plane–is to house the Aircraft Readiness Unit (ARU) for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to allow them to deploy quickly, […]
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Air ForceOperational Assessment Testing of IVEWS on F-16 Completed, Northrop Grumman Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that it has completed operational assessment testing of the company’s ultra-wideband architecture AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters. The […]
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Air ForceFourth Plane for USAF SAOC Program Arrives at SNC’s Dayton Site
Nevada’s SNC has received the fourth 747-8i at the company’s Aviation Innovation and Technology Center (AITC) in Dayton, Ohio for the U.S. Air Force Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) program, SNC said […]