Thursday, May 9, 2024
The Air Force is divulging previously unknown details about its fiscal year 2013 budget battle, which include concerns over how the service can best grapple with a funding shortfall of $98 million while implementing previously planned retirements and the remissioning of several unmanned aircraft units.
The Air Force has canceled a Red Flag-Alaska exercise that was expected to take place next month and is debating whether to cancel some of its other premier training exercises to cope with the fiscal constraints of an across-the-board congressional budget cut that was instituted in early March.
Beechcraft Corp. filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court in an attempt to stop the Air Force from producing light-attack aircraft for the Afghan military until after a government agency has ruled on a bid protest the company filed in early March.
Air Force reserve component leaders are concerned that ongoing congressional budget issues may negatively impact modernization plans for Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard aircraft efforts, in particular F-16 targeting pods and the C-130's fuel control system.
Kansas lawmakers have asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to countermand the Air Force's decision to build a fleet of light-attack aircraft for the Afghan military while a contract for that work is under protest.
The Air Force today announced it has authorized Sierra Nevada Corp. to build 20 light-attack aircraft for the Afghan military despite an ongoing bid protest from the losing contractor.
The Air Force is extending by a year a congressional mandate that requires the service to maintain more than 350 airlift aircraft in its inventory, an in-house decision that allows the service time to conduct additional studies, readdress force-structure needs with its stakeholders and make budget adjustments.
The Air Force has issued a stop-work order to Sierra Nevada Corp. for the construction of 20 light-attack aircraft ticketed for the Afghan military to allow a congressional watchdog office time to mull over whether the service wrongfully awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to a foreign contractor.
A senior Air Force official will brief Congress tomorrow on the service's recommendation for where to base 32 cargo aircraft.
Kansas lawmakers are asking Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to provide "a thorough, compelling explanation" for the Defense Department's decision to award a multimillion-dollar contract to build aircraft for the Afghan military to a foreign bidder at a higher price than its domestic competitor offered during a time when financial restraint "is mandatory" for DOD.
The Air Force expects within the next six months to unveil two essential roadmaps that will help it plan for a future in which unmanned assets have increased exponentially.
The Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a $427.5 million contract to provide 20 light-attack aircraft to the Afghan military, the service announced today.
The Defense Department has agreed to institute a new consultative process that will smooth the path toward incorporating the priorities of state governors into DOD's budget process.
In the days leading up to an important House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing, Air Force Headquarters has released a "frequently asked questions" document providing guidance for its civilian employees on potential administrative furloughs.
The Air Force has compiled a list of how many civilians will have to be furloughed at each base to accommodate pending budget cuts, as well as how much the service will save per base.
Hawker Beechcraft has emerged from bankruptcy today with a fiscal battle plan blessed by the Air Force, which will soon decide whether to award the company a contract to provide 20 light attack aircraft to the Afghan military.
As the Air Force prepares to implement its sequestration plan, the service has provided new details on the aircraft and other programs that would be hardest hit by the massive budget reductions -- with the C-130 cargo aircraft at the top of the list.
The Air Force is in the process of conducting site surveys of candidate bases for the KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft and expects to conclude those surveys in the next few weeks.
The Air Force expects its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a new model of the C-130 cargo aircraft designed for special operations and two of its premier missile-tracking satellites would experience acquisition delays if sequestration defense cuts go into effect, the service has told congressional staff.
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale will meet with House and Senate Armed Services Committee staffers tomorrow morning in advance of a planned Senate hearing at which Defense Department officials are expected to be pressed to divulge the impact that sequestration would have on the military.