Air Force

The U.S. Air Force is to buy the first 40 B-21 Raider stealth bombers–out of a planned service buy of at least 100–through “fixed price options,” Defense Secretary William LaPlante […]

The U.S. Space Force’s first site for the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) is to start operations in Exmouth in the Western Australian Outback in 2026, and a top […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants a forthcoming DoD contract renewal with SpaceX for Starlink in Ukraine to have provisions to help nix Russian black market-enabled use of the communications service. […]

One of the Aerospace Industries Association’s (AIA) 22 bullet point priorities for the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill is to limit contracting officers in buying “not more than one lot […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered 89 of 98 F-35s late last year–the highest rate in six years, and RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney delivered all 137 F135 engines for the fighter […]

The U.S. Air Force and DoD are to complete a Nunn-McCurdy review of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel next generation ICBM in the next six weeks, Pentagon acquisition chief […]

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) on May 15 questioned the impact of Boeing‘s [BA] proposed buy of Wichita-based Spirit  Aerosystems [SPR], which supplies commercial and military programs, including the Airbus A350 […]

While Congress last year allowed the U.S. Air Force to retire 68 Boeing [BA] F-15E Strike Eagles through fiscal 2029, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is saying “no” this […]

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall last week defended the department’s proposal to transfer Air National Guard (ANG) units performing space duties to the U.S. Space Force. “Creating an […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill calls on U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) to demonstrate a hybrid, military-commercial space architecture […]