Two Northrop Grumman Global Hawks will return to Robins Air Force Base, GA, for a new coat of paint after their recent paint jobs cracked and chipped.
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Rachel Cohen was managing editor for Inside the Air Force until January 2019. She previously covered the public health insurance marketplaces for Inside Health Policy and primary, secondary and higher education at the Frederick News-Post in Frederick County, Maryland. She graduated from American University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in international studies and journalism.
Two Northrop Grumman Global Hawks will return to Robins Air Force Base, GA, for a new coat of paint after their recent paint jobs cracked and chipped.
The Pentagon has revived a council established more than a decade ago to newly coordinate the government's approach to multidomain intelligence, according to the under secretary of defense for intelligence.
The Air Force recently awarded a $532.1 million production contract to Raytheon for Lot 32 of its Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile.
The fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill, signed into law by the president this week, appropriates $405.5 million for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization and blocks the Air Force from using it for anything else unless lawmakers approve a reprogramming request.
The Air Force is studying whether Lockheed Martin's U-2 can fly until 2100, about five decades longer than its current expected service life, according to Susan Thornton, director for information dominance programs in the service's acquisition branch.
Congress is slated to appropriate $248.2 million for the Air Force's Distributed Common Ground System in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill released this week, nearly $70 million more than the service requested in the base budget.
The Air Force this week released a classified request for information that will shape the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Air Force's Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program.
The Air Force is shifting research and development money in its fiscal year 2019 budget request to support "game-changing" directed-energy efforts, newly prioritizing an experimentation campaign set to begin this fall.
The Air Force Research Laboratory will launch its first experiment to use directed energy to defend bases against small, unmanned aerial systems in October, a service official said Wednesday.
The head of U.S. Strategic Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week he's no longer concerned about the legacy UH-1N Huey fleet's ability to last until replacements are ready because the Air Force upgraded the helicopters over the past year.
An Air Force spokesman says the possibility of adding air-to-air missiles to the MQ-9 Reaper is still predecisional, following a notice of a pending contract award to General Atomics for a system simulating that capability.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has a message for Congress this week: Stop reorganizing the Defense Department and focus on personnel reform.
The Air Force plans to release a draft request for proposals for the Mark 21A nuclear reentry vehicle in late fiscal year 2018, according to a new acquisition report published this week.
The Air Force will continue fleshing out a path to add lasers to mobility aircraft after considering demonstrating a laser weapon on a range of those platforms last year, one of the service's research chiefs said this week.
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The Air Force plans to retire a fourth E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System in fiscal year 2021, after its latest budget request revealed a plan to retire three of the 16-aircraft fleet in FY-19.
The Air Force plans to award a Lot 16 contract for the extended-range variant of Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile this month, the service said in recent budget and acquisition documents.
The Air Force on Tuesday released a new report directed by service Secretary Heather Wilson to offer an overview of how the service handled its 465 programs of record in fiscal year 2017 and summarizing plans for FY-18 and FY-19.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said this week the civilian heads of each service are looking at ways to approach science and technology efforts as a joint force, among other initiatives to become a more integrated and prepared military.
Some of the Air Force's MQ-1 Predators are preparing for a new life with the Navy as Creech Air Force Base, NV, officially retires the remotely piloted aircraft this week.