Air Force

The Air Force will reduce its fleet of A-10s by 102, leaving it with 246 in inventory, its chief of staff said Friday. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton […]

Boeing [BA] will make its scheduling deadline for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System IIF satellite contract, according to a company statement. Using a pulse-line manufacturing approach, Boeing is capable […]

Finmeccanica’s Alenia North America Inc., yesterday said it appointed Alan Calegari as its Chief Executive Officer. “Alenia North America will continue to grow under the direction of Alan in the […]

The Pentagon is “quite serious” about applying so-called reversibility to budget decisions that impact the defense industry, a senior official said yesterday. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy said […]

Increase In USAF UAVs. The head of the Air Force expects to see an increase in the number of remotely-piloted aircraft over the next five years. In a briefing with […]

The Air Force may place its soon-to-be retired C-27Js in storage, its chief of staff said Friday. In a briefing with reporters, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz […]

Lower sales, higher pension expenses and decreased tax credits led Lockheed Martin [LMT] to report lower profits in its fourth quarter. The company expects sales to decline further in 2012 […]

Pentagon leaders proposed multiple weapons-program changes yesterday–including cutting F-35 Joint Strike Fighter procurement, cancelling block 30 Global Hawk drones, and delaying the new ballistic-missile submarine–in the opening salvo of a […]

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Army Gen. Charles Jacoby, commander of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, joined Lt. Gen. Walter Semianiw, Canada Command commander, yesterday to sign three key bilateral documents that further develop the […]