Air Force

Integrating more sensors and doing it faster and cheaper is the direction for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as it moves into its second 50 years, the director said. “We […]

In the past year the Defense Department’s comptroller’s office has created a plan for having the military services and defense agencies achieve financial audit readiness goals but details for implementing […]

Pentagon officials plan to meet with the contractor building the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine about its proposal to self-fund the embattled program, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said yesterday. […]

Boeing [BA] yesterday said Sept. 1 it received a $1.09 billion contract modification from the Air Force adding funding to the existing Block II follow-on contract for full production, launch […]

A Senate panel wants to slash funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and kill a new combat vehicle effort as part of $26 billion in cuts to the […]

The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said yesterday he still sees a need for a second F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine despite the current fiscal pressures on […]

Boeing [BA] yesterday said the Air Force awarded it a one-year, $2.9 million contract to develop and validate a modification of the A-10 aircraft’s Digital Video Audio Data Recorder (DVADR). […]

The U.S. defense budget may be shrinking but some companies see opportunity as U.K.-based Roke Manor Research said it formed a partnership with its U.S.-based sister company, Non-Intrusive Inspection Technology […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] say they are on schedule to demonstrate their respective radar systems competing for the Air Force’s next contract for a new generation of space […]

General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems yesterday said it was awarded a potential $900 million contract for next generation antennas from the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Joint Program Office at Hanscom […]