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Courtney Albon was senior editor for aviation and space at Inside Defense until December 2021. She covered the Air Force since 2012, reporting largely on space programs and fighter aircraft acquisition, development and budget from inside Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and from military installations around the United States. Courtney previously worked as a general assignment reporter at The Ashland Times-Gazette in Ashland, OH, covering education and local government. She graduated from American University in 2008, where she studied journalism and sociology.
A Government Accountability Office report released this week reveals the Defense Department may reduce F-35 Joint Strike Fighter procurement funding between fiscal years 2018 and 2020 to pay for system development and demonstration delays.
The Pentagon completed its fifth deep-dive review of the next-generation GPS Operational Control Segment last week, and concluded that prime contractor Raytheon "continues to make progress."
Lockheed Martin's vice president for logistics told reporters Wednesday the company is pitching its F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System as a possible maintenance solution for other aircraft.
The F-35 joint program office has approved the newest version of the jet's diagnostic health management system for installation at Air Force and Navy sites, after several months of delays.
Two F-35As arrived in Estonia today as part of a long-planned training deployment.
After a successful intervention on the troubled next-generation GPS operational control segment, the director of the Air Force Digital Service said this week the group is looking to partner with the Space and Missile Systems Center as it develops an acquisition model for its new approach to managing space systems on the ground.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Air Force.
The commander of the Air Force's operational space forces is concerned that a broad Air Force effort to establish more integrated, cross-domain battle management command-and-control capabilities could slow down within the space community to quickly develop an enterprise space BMC2 network.
As industry works to develop a stopgap capability to control the initial next-generation GPS satellites while the constellation's new ground segment continues to move through development, the Air Force is conducting a study to ensure a smooth transition from the temporary to the new system.
Two more F-35A jets have arrived at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, for a month-long European training deployment.
The Defense Digital Service plans to conduct a "Hack the Air Force" exercise this summer aimed at identifying cyber vulnerabilities.
After formally selecting Boeing as the sole-source integrator for its B-52 Radar Modernization Program last month, the Air Force will host potential radar suppliers at an industry day in May.
A new report from Air University outlines a potential path for the Air Force toward a ten-fold reduction in space launch costs and makes a case for the government to be an early adopter of reusable technology.
Highlights from this week's Inside the Air Force:
The Pentagon said today it will send “a small number” of F-35A aircraft to Europe this weekend on a training deployment.
The Navy does not anticipate modifying its fighter acquisition strategy once the Pentagon's F-35 review is released, according to the acting service secretary.
The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday the Defense Department needs an approved fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill more than it needs the additional $30 billion budget amendment.
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council's recent decision to approve a capabilities development document for the F-35's follow-on modernization effort without an independent cost estimate from the Pentagon's cost assessment and program evaluation office was somewhat contentious and not “ideal,” the head of the council said today.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said this week the Air Force is not considering a stop-loss as an option to address its pilot shortfall.
Air Force Space Command Chief Gen. Jay Raymond said this week he plans to move swiftly to fill a new three-star "space advocate" role on the Air Staff.