The Air Force has accepted 44 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles from Raytheon following a successful live-fire test of one of the missiles outfitted with a new motor.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Air Force has accepted 44 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles from Raytheon following a successful live-fire test of one of the missiles outfitted with a new motor.
The Air Force has increased its estimate on the percentage of flying hours that may need to be cut in order to offset the pressure of sequestration.
A successful live-fire test of Raytheon's radar-guided Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile on Friday has enabled the company to begin delivering missiles to the Air Force again after years of trying to repair a kink in the program's production line.
The Air Force's secretary and chief of staff this week described in detail the cuts, reductions and delays the service would have to put in place to mitigate the negative impacts of sequestration, the most eye-popping of which is a possible flying stand-down this summer.
The National Governors Association is making a push for additional say in how the Air Force trims its force-structure strategy, a topic the association's co-chairs discussed during what they called a "state-of-the-states" address today.
A senior Air Force official on Thursday gave House Armed Services Committee staffers and Pennsylvania lawmakers a bare-bones idea of how the service plans to move forward with reintroducing 32 cargo aircraft into its force-structure strategy.
The Air Force has established an Intra-Theater Airlift working group to decide how to divvy up the 32 cargo aircraft lawmakers have mandated the service keep through fiscal year 2013.
House lawmakers from Arkansas, Iowa and Ohio have introduced legislation that would forbid Air Force Secretary Michael Donley from retiring or transferring most Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve aircraft until an independent commission presents to Congress a report on the future force structure of the Air Force.
The Council of Governors has sent a letter to senior House and Senate lawmakers asking that during the upcoming defense authorization conference negotiations they continue to support a freeze of Air National Guard (ANG) manpower and aircraft throughout fiscal year 2013.
The Air Force anticipates making pertinent decisions on the way ahead for its Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile program next week as it moves toward recovering from a delay in production, according to a service spokesman.
Alaska's congressional delegation wants the Air Force to expand the scope of a study that would help the service decide whether to transfer a fleet of F-16 fighter jets across the state.
As the Senate prepares to tackle its fiscal year 2013 defense bills, an Alaska senator is pushing an amendment that would prohibit the Defense Department from closing bases without first conducting cost-benefit analyses and giving Congress additional time to review base-closure suggestions.
Northrop Grumman executives painted a worst-case scenario for their investors today after being asked about what sequestration would mean for the company's 2013 earnings.
The director of the Air National Guard today disputed allegations of a growing rift between the Guard and the Air Force following a tumultuous year in which budget cuts associated with the service's new force-structure strategy fell heavily on the Guard, prompting a group of governors to push back.
The Air Force has pushed back a decision on possible bases for its KC-46 tanker fleet until the end of the year rather than the end of this month, citing an influx of data as the reason for the delay.
German military officials have altered their plan to purchase four Global Hawk unmanned aircraft from Northrop Grumman in 2012, according to company executives.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is confronting the Air Force over an environmental study that could support a controversial force-structure strategy Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put on ice in June, according to a congressional source.
Boeing and the Air Force will be consolidating three contracts that support Active Electronically Scanned Array radars on the service's F-15 fighter jet fleet with a single performance-based logistics (PBL) contract.
In a ceremony today at Joint Base Andrews, MD, Gen. Mark Welsh became the next Air Force chief of staff, taking the reins of the service's air, space and cyber platforms.
An Air Force analysis of alternatives that will decide how to best proceed with the service's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System program hinges on pairing a fourth-generation radar on a business jet, an acquisition decision that defense contractors are calling "expensive" when compared to other options available to the Air Force.