Sign In
Search

New Rescue Helo Program Less Ambitious Than Prior Plan, AF Chief Says

DDN
SHARE:

By Marina Malenic The Air Force has revived plans to purchase a new combat rescue helicopter, with its efforts now focused on procuring a far less costly platform than initially expected, the service's senior uniformed official said yesterday. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said the Pentagon leadership is now fully behind a plan to replace the Air Force's aging Sikorsky [UTX] HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters. Defense Secretary Robert Gates last year cancelled the combat search-and-rescue (CSAR-X) fleet…

Subscriber-only content. Please log in below.

Not a subscriber or registered user yet?

Please contact us at clientservices@accessintel.com or call us at 888-707-5814 (Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.), to start a free trial, get pricing information, order a reprint, or post an article link on your website.

Recommended

Advanced / Transformational Technology

AI Maturity for Fighter Missions Looms As Big Challenge for CCA

Advanced / Transformational Technology

Aventra Defense Raises $18 Million To Support Long-Range Strike System

Navy/USMC

Ursa Major Wins Contracts For Navy Solid Rocket Motor Development

Navy/USMC

Lockheed Martin Nabs $245 Million Mod For Second IRST Block II Order

Trending

Anduril Nabs Potential $1.8 Billion Army Deal To Support ‘Corps-Scale Fielding’ For NGC2
Defense Watch: Possible MUSV Lease, CBO and Golden Dome, X-BAT Sites
Army Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
USAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms
U.S. Space Force Pins Hopes on Space-Based Radar Systems, Northrop Grumman Building GMTI System

Congress Updates

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]

Missile Defense

Fischer Says Golden Dome Boosters Need To Increase Capitol Hill Support With Information, Warns Against Counting On Reconciliation

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – A Senate Armed Services panel chair today said boosters of the Golden Dome program still have work to do to increase support on Capitol Hill while […]

The Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers

Michael Harrison – SANS Institute

Force Multipliers

Michael DiOrio – Dataminr

Force Multipliers

Arne Brinck – Dark Wolf Solutions

Force Multipliers

Jags Kandasamy – Latent AI

Job Feed

Post a Job // Post a Resume