A top congressional appropriator today said Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce the way ahead for several major Defense Department weapon programs next week.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
A top congressional appropriator today said Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce the way ahead for several major Defense Department weapon programs next week.
ST. LOUIS -- In an effort to keep its international fighter jet business churning, Boeing today revealed a new, advanced version of the multirole F-15 Eagle, which the company has been secretly developing for months.
Ten senators today advised President Obama against delaying the Air Force’s KC-X next-generation tanker program and 2018 bomber program.
A senior Pentagon budget official today attempted to lower expectations for dramatic policy shifts in the fiscal year 2010 budget request that will be released in the coming weeks, noting that significant changes will be made in the Obama administration's second defense spending request in 2011.
The Air Force has ordered inspections of its entire C-130 Hercules cargo hauler fleet after discovering a potential issue with wing bolts, according to service officials.
ORLANDO, FL -- Many of the Air Force's geriatric, Eisenhower-era KC-135 tanker aircraft fleet will have to have their "skin" replaced beginning around 2018, according to the commander of Air Mobility Command.
ORLANDO, FL -- The Air Force has briefed Defense Secretary Robert Gates on its desire to buy more F-22As, according to Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz.
The Air Force plans to present Defense Secretary Robert Gates with an F-22A fighter requirement that is lower than Air Combat Command's oft-stated goal of 381 fifth-generation Raptors, but higher than the congressionally-funded 183 number, the top service's top general said this morning.
The Air Force's next-generation bomber program could end up costing $30 billion to $40 billion, according to a think-tank analyst.
Inadequately funding prototypes during the development of major weapon systems will inevitably lead to greater cost growth down the road in future acquisitions, according to the Pentagon's top weapons buyer.
MARIETTA, GA -- The Air Force's premier fifth-generation F-22A fighter jet meets all of its key performance parameters despite accusations from the Pentagon's top acquisition executive to the contrary, according to senior Lockheed Martin program officials.
EADS North America announced today that it will not compete to build the Air Force's VC-25 replacement, better know as Air Force One, opting to focus on the more lucrative next-generation tanker competition.
President Obama has for the first time expressed his support for two of the Air Force's largest procurement programs, singling out by name the Boeing C-17 strategic airlift program and the next-generation tanker.
The Air Force awarded C-17 Globemaster III-builder Boeing a $1.1 billion aircraft support contract yesterday, according to a service announcement.
The Air Force today officially stood up the command that will oversee all of the service’s nuclear bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile activities.
"We're right now [on] the horn of a dilemma because one of the nations committed to that program . . . is wavering on [its] commitment to stay in," Gen. Bantz Craddock said this morning at a breakfast with reporters in Washington.
As the Pentagon prepares to cut the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternate power plant program -- again -- engine makers General Electric and Rolls-Royce have launched a new Website touting their product's success.
Air Force acquisition chief Sue Payton is expected to remain the service's top weapons buyer throughout the presidential transition until a successor is named, according to multiple service officials.
The Air Force should halt its F-22A Raptor production and scale back planned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter buys in future defense budgets and instead focus on building more sophisticated unmanned aircraft, according to a report released today by a Washington think tank.
Pentagon acquisition chief John Young has accused Air Force officials working on the service's largest multibillion-dollar communications satellite program of "poorly using taxpayer dollars" in a pungently worded memorandum to service secretaries and three other senior Defense Department officials.