Air Force

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $253 million contract to begin work on F-15SA pilot and maintenance training systems for the Royal Saudi Air Force, according to a […]

The Defense Department “radically” changed and improved how it designs, tests and delivers F-35 software increments, going from a rate of one increment every 30 days to every three days, […]

The head of the military’s Cyber Command yesterday disclosed that the Defense Department is in the process of creating and training its core set of teams that would operate in […]

Keeping the F-35’s development program healthy in this age of budget uncertainty is probably the Defense Department’s biggest priority, according to key Air Force general. Office of the Assistant Secretary […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) […]

Despite being on the right path, the F-35’s affordability, or the ability to acquire aircraft in quantity and to sustain them over the life cycle, is of paramount concern, the […]

Members of the Kansas congressional delegation want a “thorough, compelling explanation” from the Defense Department on why the Air Force awarded the $427.5 million Light Air Support (LAS) contract to […]

A joint French and Italian crew March 6 operating two French Air Force Surface-To-Air-Missile Platform/Terrain (SAMP/T) units successfully scored in a test against a ballistic missile threat, for the first […]

Beechcraft protested with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Friday the Air Force’s recent award of a $427 million contract to Sierra Nevada Defense Corp. (SNC) to provide 20 of Brazilian […]

The limitations, workarounds and flight restrictions in place on the F-35A at this early stage of its development substantially limit its utility of training, the Defense Department’s chief weapons tester […]