Air Force

While Air Force leaders during the Biden administration viewed hypersonic weapons with some skepticism due to their projected high unit costs and uncertain benefits, current Air Force leaders are full […]

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

A SpaceX [SPCX] Starfall capsule for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) testing of Rocket Cargo space to Earth delivery launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force […]

Companies unnamed by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) have received six Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) purchase agreements under the ACCESS contract for space domain awareness (SDA), the […]

A “secure by design,” cyber-hardened satellite would make a mark to speed U.S. military operations in a future proliferated low Earth orbit (P-LEO) regime under the Space Technology Advanced Research […]

A $14 billion spares shortfall for such aircraft as the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A fighter and the 1950s-era KC-135 tanker and B-52 bomber by Boeing [BA] is a major challenge […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) in a speech at the company’s Dayton site on Tuesday. “What we see here at SNC is the blueprint for a […]

The U.S. Air Force may undertake a KC-46A Software Integration Sustainment & Support (K-SWISS) effort for the Boeing [BA] refueling aircraft. The effort would involve the KC-46A Systems Integration Laboratory […]

Four Senate Democrats are seeking insights from SpaceX [SPCX] on the degradation of the company’s military Starshield system for Ukraine. On Oct. 14, Ukrainian officials reported a lack of access […]

The U.S. Space Forces Central (SPACECENT) commander and Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), speak several times a day, a pace heightened by the nearly 10-month […]