ORLANDO, FL -- The Air Force's "launch needs will be met" despite Russia's decision Thursday to halt deliveries of rocket engines to the United States, according to service Secretary Frank Kendall.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Briana Reilly was a Pentagon emerging tech reporter until December 2022. She previously covered the Air Force for Inside Defense after joining the publication in June 2021. Before that, she spent five years covering state politics and government in Wisconsin for The Capital Times and WisPolitics.com.
ORLANDO, FL -- The Air Force's "launch needs will be met" despite Russia's decision Thursday to halt deliveries of rocket engines to the United States, according to service Secretary Frank Kendall.
ORLANDO, FL -- Lockheed Martin expects the Air Force will award initial weapon system integration contracts for the Stand-in Attack Weapon -- a new strike capability for the F-35 -- within the next two weeks, a company executive said today.
ORLANDO, FL -- Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, "the pacing challenge remains China" when it comes to the Biden administration's forthcoming National Defense Strategy, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said today.
ORLANDO, FL -- Before Dynetics can complete the next test of its Gremlins airborne retrieval system, the company's team lead for the program says the effort is in need of a Defense Department partner that can provide a "modest amount of funding" for technology improvements.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman officials today announced their selections of the subcontractors that will provide payloads for their respective satellites tied to the Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared effort. (UPDATED)
Air Force officials have reframed their approach to overhauling the service's command and control and battle management systems, seeking to make removing stovepipes and bolstering flexibility in executing military operations the underlying principles of the program.
The Space Development Agency has awarded three companies prototype agreements worth a total of $1.8 billion to develop a Tranche 1 Transport Layer of 126 small communication satellites. (UPDATED)
Northrop Grumman has won a $341 million contract for work on the first site of the Space Force's Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability to provide persistent space domain awareness in geosynchronous orbit.
CHANTILLY, VA -- Space Command officials are playing “a supporting role” amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, SPACECOM’s chief said today, sharing missile warning, battlespace awareness and other information with U.S. European Command.
CHANTILLY, VA -- The head of Space Systems Command says the Air Force is poised to make a “large pivot” to head off China in its fiscal year 2024 budgeting work, as he himself looks to the middle of the decade to prepare for what he called “the fight that we’ve got to get ready for.”
Defense officials are seeking industry feedback surrounding the creation of space cyber demonstration and training events in their latest notice tied to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall's operational imperatives.
President Biden's pick to serve as the senior procurement executive for space acquisition programs pledged to "drive speed" into the process for fielding new capabilities while bolstering resiliency in space architecture.
Lockheed Martin is working to develop a 5G communications infrastructure testbed for the Marine Corps after winning a $19.3 million Defense Department contract, the company announced today.
The F-35 Joint Program Office is seeking out new cyber protection technologies as it kicks off a multistage challenge to integrate advanced capabilities onto the fighter aircraft and supporting ground systems, a recent government notice indicates.
As Raytheon continues evolving its data processing segment of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared ground system, a company official says she sees "a lot of future runway for using this framework" for both space and non-space missions alike.
Lockheed Martin has opted to terminate its planned $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne following the Federal Trade Commission's recent lawsuit seeking to block the merger.
Finland today signed a deal to procure 64 F-35A fighters, including engines and maintenance equipment, spare parts, training and Block 4 capabilities worth nearly $9.6 billion.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall's seven operational imperatives have become "marching orders" to military space officials, prompting a rush to collect industry feedback with enough time to inform upcoming budgeting and program planning.
Boeing is investing in "state-of-the-art production centers" and capabilities as officials wait for a handful of large programs to move past the development cycle and into production, according to the head of the company's defense business.
While the so-called "valley of death" often refers to the difficulties in transitioning innovative technologies to a program of record, an official with the Space Enterprise Consortium sees moving from research and development into prototyping as the bigger risk thus far to the relatively new organization.