Air Force

The Air Force on Friday released a request for proposals (RFP) on Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) for the Global Positioning System III (GPS III) space vehicles 11 and beyond Phase […]

An HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter was grounded Jan. 5 in southern Afghanistan, where it was damaged while evacuating U.S. and Afghan casualties from a firefight with Taliban fighters. One U.S. […]

The U.S. Air Force issued a request for information (RFI) Monday on products that can virtualize the cyberspace aspects of service weapon systems to support realistic mission rehearsals. The notice, […]

The U.S. Air Force awarded BAE Systems a contract worth about $279 million to provide multiple agencies with a range of radar support services, the company said Tuesday. The firm-fixed-price, […]

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program met its production goal of 45 aircraft in 2015, bringing the total number of operational aircraft deliveries for the U.S. and partner militaries to […]

Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said over the weekend that the Air Force’s decision to have Northrop Grumman [NOC] build the long-range strike bomber (LRS-B) was “fundamentally flawed.” The […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] cannot say much about its preparation for production of the Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) because of a pending protest and the highly classified nature of […]

Congress came to a deal late Tuesday night on government spending for the current fiscal year, unveiling a $1.1 trillion package that includes about $573 billion for the Defense Department. […]

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) vowed to continue into the next authorization season his fight against future Air Force use of the RD-180 after the fiscal […]

The Air Force doubled the tempo of the long-running Schriever Wargame from biennial, or every other year, to annual, according to a key official. Schriever Wargame 2015, set in the […]