Air Force
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SpaceSpace Force Soliciting Industry Prototypes For $783 Million Program To Upgrade Ground-Based Radars
The Space Force’s fiscal 2027 future years defense plan includes $783 million to upgrade eight ground-based radars in collaboration with the Missile Defense Agency, including nearly $129 million in fiscal […]
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Air ForceLess Than $400 Million Needed to Modify VC-25B Bridge Aircraft, USAF Estimates
The nearly decade-long program to develop and field two VC-25B Air Force One planes by Boeing [BA] has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the […]
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Air ForceAddition Of Production Lines For F-15EX Eyed By USAF, MQ-9 Follow-On In Works
The U.S. Air Force is negotiating with Boeing [BA] a multi-year procurement buy for the company’s F-15EX Eagle II and the possible opening of a second and third production line […]
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SpaceSPACECOM Chief: Maneuver Needed For High Value Satellites
While safety in numbers is a defining trait of low Earth orbit satellites, including those in the Space Development Agency’s future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, key geosynchronous orbit satellites, such […]
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Air ForceNGAP Contenders Complete Assembly Readiness Reviews For Prototype Engines
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney and GE Aerospace [GE] said that they have completed assembly readiness reviews for their XA103 and XA102 engines, respectively, for the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion […]
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Air ForceUSAF To Meet With Companies On Support Equipment For B-52 CERP
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to modify two B-52H bombers later this year for the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), the bomber directorate’s contracting office at Tinker AFB, Okla., […]
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SpaceSpace Control Budget More Than Doubles To About 30 Percent Of Space Force Request
Space Control is about 30 percent of the Space Force’s fiscal 2027 budget request of $71 billion, which is to include $12 billion in a future reconciliation bill, according to […]
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CongressWith $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects
With the Trump administration’s push to massively increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion in fiscal year 2027, the Army, Air Force and Navy have eschewed submitting large unfunded priorities lists […]
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Air ForceAir Force Examining Government-Owned Technical Data Library For B-2
Under an Air Force Supply Chain Velocity initiative for the service’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber by Northrop Grumman [NOC], the service would create a government-owned technical data library through reverse […]
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Air ForceAir Force Plans $1.7 Billion Retrofit Of APG-85 Radar On 181 F-35As In Lot 17 And Prior
The Air Force’s fiscal 2027 future years defense plan (FYDP) contains more than $1.7 billion to retrofit 181 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As in Lot 17 and prior with the future […]