Air Force

The U.S. Air Force plans to refine its concept for the future Increment 2 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). “Increment 2–we are ‘danger’ close to getting started in earnest […]

The U.S. Air Force’s inventory of high-end munitions is sufficient, as the service moves to field lower-cost, $100,000 models in the coming years to bolster capacity to deter China and […]

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been testing […]

The U.S. Space Force is seeking industry feedback by Dec. 2 to help the service determine an acquisition strategy for Commercial and Military Satellite Communications Operations Support (COSMOS)–a future follow-on […]

The U.S. Space Force said on Wednesday that it has added five companies to the U.S. Space Command Combined Space Operations Center’s (CSpOC) Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) at Vandenberg Space […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has personnel at combatant commands and other forward locations to aid in fielding front-line equipment requests, DIU Director Doug Beck said last Friday. “The whole […]

The U.S. Space Force may award four companies Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) contracts. “The government intends to competitively award up to four Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for PTS-G as […]

The Global Positioning System (GPS) program, established in 1973, needs to launch four Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellites with the L5 signal in short order to help counter adversary […]

Some defense technologists believe that the U.S. Air Force’s manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) sixth generation fighter, in order to survive a service-ordered review, will have to be smaller […]

General Atomics‘ Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) subsidiary and BAE Systems said that they are teaming to demonstrate autonomous electronic warfare (EW) systems that the companies believe could one day go […]