Air Force

MDBA Inc., the wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of missile maker MBDA, yesterday said it has purchased Northrop Grumman’s [NOC[ Viper Strike munitions business, located in Huntsville, Ala. Terms of the agreement […]

The Air Force has ordered 40 more MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft from maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems under a contract worth more than $319 million, the Pentagon said last week. […]

The Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Network Enterprise Domain (NED) wants to form non-contract relationships with vendors of JTRS-capable radios to make them compatible […]

Raytheon [RTN] has completed testing of tri-mode seeker that will be installed on the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) and is designed to track and hit moving […]

House and Senate negotiators are likely to file a final FY ’12 defense appropriations bill by day’s end that provides the Pentagon a $5 billion boost in funding over last […]

The Pentagon on Friday issued a contract for Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the fifth low-rate initial-production (LRIP 5) contract for the construction of 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The Pentagon […]

House and Senate lawmakers continued to hash out the final versions of the two Pentagon budget bills yesterday in hopes of wrapping up the delayed measures–which dictate the fate of […]

SCHOTT North America Inc. (SCHOTT) yesterday said it is kicking off production of chalcogenide glasses for infrared (IR) sensing applications, produced for the first time in the United States. To […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the construction of 18 F-16s that will be turned over to the Iraqi government under the Foreign […]

The Air Force ordered immediate inspections this week of the backup oxygen units fielded on F-22 Raptor as it continues to grapple with oxygen supply issues behind groundings of the […]