Air Force

ATK [ATK] yesterday said it recently received the award of a fourth contract option to produce 30mm PGU-15A/B cartridges for the Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Contracting Center (RICC), Rock […]

The Air Force will have its first F-35A Local Area Operations flight “next week sometime” at Eglin AFB, Fla., its chief of staff said yesterday. “In respect to Local Area […]

The Air Force intends to “set aside,” or terminate, the contract awarded to Sierra Nevada for the Afghanistan Light Air Support (LAS) program, effective March 2, according to a service […]

House lawmakers repeatedly slammed the Air Force’s proposal to cancel a variant of the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft yesterday, suggesting a powerful committee could attempt to tweak the plan. House […]

Sagem, part of the Safran Group, yesterday said it has just signed a contract with SIMMAD, on behalf of the French Ministry of Defense, to provide in-service maintenance for the […]

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] SpectIR infrared search and track system capability (IRST) pod successfully acquired, tracked and provided a weapons cue during a live fire flight test conducted in early November […]

AeroVironment recently received an Air Force order for its Switchblade loitering and munition systems and services, according to a Feb. 15 company statement. The $4.2 million extension to an existing […]

The Defense Department’s Better Buying Power initiatives “aren’t understood” at the “working level” and it may take two to four years for those initiatives to trickle down to lower level […]

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] created the new F-16V fighter jet variant because its customer feedback asked for upgrades in the plane, according to a company executive. Bill McHenry, Lockheed Martin’s director […]