Air Force

The Pentagon asked Congress this week for permission to rejigger $112 million in funding within its coffers for new intelligence and surveillance programs including Special Operations Command spy planes. Military […]

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The Army’s recent success in distributing its nascent network to several sites offers a glimpse of how the service can not only play an important role in the new defense […]

Engine manufacturers Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney [UTX] entered bids on the preliminary design of a proposed Air Force development program to improve the performance of aircraft engines. General Electric […]

The two-month long strike that has affected production at Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 plant in Fort Worth, Texas officially came to an end yesterday when the machinist union voted overwhelmingly […]

Key lawmakers predicted yesterday the House will make few changes to the Pentagon budget bill in two weeks, despite the White House’s opposition and Senate plans to advance a more-modest […]

The Defense Department recently awarded Rolls-Royce a contract worth potentially $598 million to put the company’s AE1107C engines on the Marine Corps and Air Force V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, a company spokesman […]

The director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said the agency is already beginning to move items out of Afghanistan ahead of the larger work expected as U.S. troops begin […]

The Defense Department said Tuesday it awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.8 billion contract to provide Saudi Arabia with upgrade kits to convert its F-15s to its F-15SA variant. The sole-source […]

A Rolls-Royce executive said yesterday the company has achieved significant improvement in its T56 engine series 3.5 upgrade program. Tom Hartmann, Rolls-Royce senior vice president of government programs, told reporters […]