Air Force
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Air ForceTanker Overturn Would Be Disaster, Advocates of European Cooperation Say
By Emelie Rutherford If the Air Force’s contested tanker contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and a European partner is overturned, it will be a "disaster" for efforts to accelerate cooperation […]
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Air Force
Pentagon Restructures JASSM Program
The Pentagon Friday certified a restructured program for Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The restructured program consists of two separate increments: the JASSM Baseline increment and the […]
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Air Force
Lockheed Martin Teams With Former Rival Northrop Grumman For GPS OCX Phase B Contract
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has joined a team lead by Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for a follow-on Air Force contract for mission enterprise control support for Global Positioning System (GPS) […]
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Air Force
Aerojet Completes Development Test Firing of Innovative Engine
Aerojet [GY] yesterday announced it recently completed a successful full-duration development test firing of its innovative Axial HAN Thruster for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Raytheon‘s [RTN] Net-Centric Airborne […]
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Air Force
FCS Successfully Completes Role In Air Force JEFX 2008
By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) deems successful it’s ability to shorten the sensor-to-shooter link in its portion of the Air Force’s Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) […]
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DoD Acquisition Chief Wants Accelerated Merger of Army, Air Force UAV Program
By Ann Roosevelt The Pentagon’s top acquisition official wants to find out when the Army and Air Force can merge their unmanned aerial vehicle programs and then accelerate the process. […]
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Air Force
Pentagon’s Acquisition Chief Taking Steps To Improve Program Execution
By Geoff Fein The Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer is looking to a number of efforts such as competitive prototyping to improve program execution and help deliver systems and technologies to […]
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Air Force
Allied Nations Interested In Buying THAAD Ballistic Missile Defense Systems
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude […]
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Air Force
Missile Defense Makes War Less Likely, Rather Than Precipitating Conflict: General
Another Minuteman Overhaul May Be Needed U.S. moves to form a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield help to avert conflict, much as the vast U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons […]
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Congress Short-Changes Defense; Huge Funding Increases Needed To Support Existing, Future Programs Including Procurement Of Major Weapons Platforms: AIA Report
The federal government needs to step up to the challenge and fully fund myriad defense programs, specifically including procurement of ships, tanks, planes, missiles and more, the Aerospace Industries Association […]