Air Force

The percentage of U.S Air Force bombers available for missions is in the 50s—a trend consistent with service-wide aircraft availability statistics, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, the head of Air Force Global […]

The U.S. Air Force is examining industry capacity to build “secondary launch capability”–a follow-on to the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) on the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury Take Charge and […]

The U.S. Space Force is analyzing how to retain control over key elements of Golden Dome amid a possible bid by a SpaceX team to lease equipment to DoD for […]

The U.S. Space Force Counter Communications System (CCS) 10.3 Meadowlands received fielding approval on May 2 after Space Force accepted delivery of the first two systems from builder L3Harris Technologies […]

The U.S. Air Force has more control over the development of the Boeing [BA] F-47 fighter than the service has had for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II, Air […]

While U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Allvin posted on X on May 1 that the two Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes–Anduril Industries‘ YFQ-44A Fury and General Atomics‘ […]

The U.S. Air Force B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) has exceeded the 15 percent significant unit cost increase threshold “due to design, production, and installation cost increases,” the Air Force […]

RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon said this month that its PhantomStrike radar had a first flight test on the Raytheon Multi-Program Testbed (MPT) aircraft in Ontario, Calif. The MPT–known as “Voodoo One” […]

Palantir [PLTR] has won a nearly $218 million delivery order from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) under a data software services umbrella contract–the Space C2 Data Platform, the […]

The U.S. Space Force is examining whether to move ahead on a possible program for Commercial and Military Satellite Communications Operations Support (COSMOS) for Space Operations Command and Schriever Space […]