Air Force

As the U.S. Air Force embarks upon a reorganization to improve the service’s position to counter China, Air Force Gen. Kevin Schneider, who assumed the helm of Pacific Air Forces […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 20 that several recent tests at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., reflect “significant progress” in the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase […]

The planned U.S. Air Force reorganization–known as Reoptimizing for Great Power Competition–will benefit the realization of the service’s priority research and development/acquisition efforts, such as Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Air […]

On Feb. 14, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on X that the committee had made available to all congressional members “information concerning a serious […]

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration has awarded RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney  a $355 million performance-based logistics (PBL) contract to sustain the F100 engine for the country’s F-16 and […]

Kratos [KTOS] is folding in the work that the company has done on the XQ-58A Valkyrie for the U.S. Air Force Skyborg program into offerings for the service’s Collaborative Combat […]

Companies are raising questions with the U.S. Space Force about a future Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR). “At the Schriever [Space Force Base, Colo.] wargames, as we were playing through […]

U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael “Mini” Minihan said on Feb. 14 that he is focusing on his “25 by 25” initiative in his six remaining months as the head of […]

Small kamikaze drones have been a worry for U.S. commanders–most recently in a deadly attack on the U.S. Tower 22 base in northeast Jordan near Syria on Jan. 28. While […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] will upgrade the Air Force’s fleet of LITENING targeting pods with a new large aperture (LA) pod that increases the range for aircrews to detect, track, identify, […]