Friday, April 19, 2024
In a Defense: Next post earlier this week, titled “Strike Back,” the Joint Strike Fighter program executive officer, Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Davis, commented on criticisms over the past several years made by an Australian think tank on the F-35 program and its applicability for Australia's future combat.
Ever since the Australian government signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States in 2006 to become a partner nation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, an “independent” think tank calling itself Air Power Australia has been all over the fifth-generation jet's capabilities.
The Air Force today might be in a "better situation" with the space systems it operates if it had settled on less complex satellite designs rather than pursued "high-90s" requirements, the service's chief of staff told reporters today.
The Pentagon has decided to beddown 59 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, beginning in March 2010, according to a Record of Decision released by the base today.
The GE Rolls-Royce team building the secondary engine to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun testing its first production-configuration F136 engine a month ahead of schedule, the companies announced this week.
Sure, the Joint Strike Fighter could be set up as a manned-unmanned fighter jet, but is it worth it?
The Air Force expects to award a contract for its next-generation satellite communications program early next year following a recent decision to scrap original source-selection plans and open a new request for proposals, the air service's top space acquisition official told reporters today.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz recently announced that Brig. Gen. Clyde Moore, a career test pilot, will be the next deputy director of the Joint Strike Fighter program office.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, CO -- Nations must set guidelines for satellites operating in close proximity to one another when policy makers craft international treaties for the use of technology in space, according to the chief of Air Force Space Command.
The Air Force announced today that it has closed the existing source-selection for the next-generation communications satellite constellation and will release a new draft request for proposals this week.
The Pentagon's top acquisition official this week questioned the urgency with which the Air Force is pursuing its combat search-and-rescue replacement helicopter program as the next administration prepares to take over.
The Defense Department is making "some progress" in investigating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology to bring acquisition programs' costs down, according to Pentagon acquisition chief John Young.
Making the rounds in the blogosphere this week is a video showing a heretofore unidentified Air Force officer’s briefing on the Indian air force's Su30-MKI's performance at Red Flag 2008.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense intends to announce the winner of a multibillion-dollar next-generation communications satellite constellation contract "as soon as possible," OSD said in a statement released today.
The Air Force announced today it will issue a "minor amendment" to the combat search-and-rescue helicopter replacement program's request for proposal, making it the seventh amended request for the troubled and highly sought-after acquisition program.
At an industry conference today in Springfield, VA, a member of an industry panel charged with forecasting the space market over the next 10 years said the Transformational Satellite Communications System contract award will be pushed one year to the right.
You may have seen a report today suggesting the Defense Department has decided to terminate the current competition for the Air Force's next-generation communications satellite constellation.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is waiting to approve the B-2 radar modernization program's start of low-rate initial production until program officials complete price negotiations with the bomber's contractor, according to OSD and Northrop Grumman officials.
A Pentagon-directed task force recommends that Air Force Space Command take over the air service's overall nuclear mission in addition to its responsibility as stewards of the nation's military satellite assets, the chairman of the panel told reporters during a briefing today at the Pentagon.