Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Obama administration has directed a new review of the Joint Strike Fighter program, directing an "independent" Pentagon team -- that last year found the F-35 program needed two additional years of development and more than $15 billion over the next six years -- to update its findings in order to support Defense Department leaders preparing the fiscal year 2011 budget request.
There has been a lot of buzz around Washington, and abroad, about a July 23 Congressional Quarterly article that says the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will need two years of additional work.
The Senate voted today in favor of an amendment to the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill capping F-22A production at 187 aircraft, delivering a big win for the White House and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who want buys of the Air Force fighter jet curbed.
House appropriators have crafted legislation that encourages the Pentagon to buy up to 36 KC-X next-generation tankers per year from one or two contractors, according to a congressional report.
Senators are putting on quite a show as floor debate on an amendment to the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill that would end F-22A production at 187 aircraft has concluded.
A vote on an amendment introduced by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) that would remove funding for Lockheed Martin F-22A purchases in the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill remains in limbo.
A vote on Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) amendment to the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill that would remove funding for F-22A purchases has been delayed until tomorrow, at the earliest.
Sticking to their guns, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) and Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) are voicing strong opposition to funding for future F-22A fighter purchases in the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill.
A Pentagon inspector general's report has concluded that former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley committed numerous ethics violations associated with the award of a $50 million contract to supply multimedia support to the service's Thunderbirds flight demonstration team.
The Air Force today unveiled an overarching blueprint that will influence its acquisition of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities over the next 20 years.
The top two House defense appropriators are set to meet with committee Chairman Dave Obey in the coming weeks to discuss the possibility of overturning legislation written by the Wisconsin Democrat more than a decade ago that prohibits foreign sales of the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor.
The White House today threatened to veto the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill if Congress votes to continue F-22A Raptor production and fund a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The House Armed Services Committee early this morning voted to continue F-22A Raptor production beyond the 187-aircraft program of record.
The Paris Air Show is under way in rainy Le Bourget, France. While the international media is busy coming up with conspiracy theories about why the Air Force did not bring the F-22A Raptor to the show, the staff of Inside the Air Force brings you some highlights from today's industry briefings and announcements.
The contentious back-and-forth battle between Congress and the Pentagon over the Joint Strike Fighter second engine program continued today as a House defense panel added funding for the alternative power plant in its mark-up of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill.
Continuing to fund a second engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will delay purchases of more than 50 aircraft over the next five years, according to a senior Air Force official.
The Air Force has told lawmakers it could use $140 million in fiscal year 2010 to keep its highly classified Next-Generation Bomber program alive, Inside the Air Force has learned.
Only a handful of members of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee showed up to hear the Air Force leadership lay their plans for fiscal year 2010 during a hearing on Capitol Hill this morning.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) has introduced legislation that would require the Pentagon to continue funding the Air Force's recently halted next-generation bomber program.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz told House lawmakers today the Air Force needs 243 Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptors to maintain air superiority.