Lockheed Martin is planning its fourth multidomain command-and-control tabletop exercise this summer that will use automated tools to plan kinetic and non-kinetic effects in air, space and cyberspace.
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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.
Lockheed Martin is planning its fourth multidomain command-and-control tabletop exercise this summer that will use automated tools to plan kinetic and non-kinetic effects in air, space and cyberspace.
Upgrading the MQ-9 Reaper to track moving targets more effectively will improve the Lynx synthetic aperture radar but cannot replace the E-8C Joint Surveillance Attack Radar System's capabilities, General Atomics tells Inside the Air Force.
A bipartisan group of senators wrote to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson this week asking for clarity on how Sikorsky's recent bid protest could affect the UH-1N Huey replacement competition's schedule, saying they have “low confidence” the service will stick to its plan to award a production contract in fiscal year 2018.
The Air Force plans to release a report in the next few weeks detailing how its acquisition programs fared in 2017, service spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed Friday.
The Air Force's $1.8 billion, fiscal year 2019 unfunded requirements list includes boosts for the service's space, nuclear and military construction portfolios, but its largest request is an additional $800 million for a classified program.
Executives at the Air Force's top weapons suppliers say they are looking for new ways to streamline munitions production as demand grows and the service focuses on more advanced adversaries.
Air Force Special Operations Command patched software problems discovered with the AC-130J Ghostrider's 30 mm gun, which were described in the director of operational test and evaluation's latest annual report, according to the head of AFSOC.
Air Force Special Operations Command chief Lt. Gen. Brad Webb is optimistic that service leaders' focus on science and technology will help propel an initiative to field a laser on the new AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, he told reporters at a recent conference.
The Air Force will open its Coalition Space Operations Center this summer at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, to complement the National Space Defense Center, a service official said at an Air Force Association event today.
Boeing has reached a $3.9 billion agreement with President Trump for two 747-8 jets that will serve as the next presidential aircraft fleet, capping off a period of tumult for the program after Trump in 2016 tweeted it was too expensive and should be canceled.
ORLANDO, FL -- The head of Air Force Air Education and Training Command told reporters here last week he is working to flesh out initiatives to shrink the manpower and the cost needed to keep the remotely piloted aircraft enterprise running.
ORLANDO, FL -- Sikorsky is working toward the maiden flight of its HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter as it begins assembling the fleet's first aircraft in anticipation of the start of low-rate production in fiscal year 2019.
A key nuclear modernization program, the B61-12 tailkit assembly life-extension program, requires about $52 million more for production in fiscal year 2019 than anticipated, according to the Air Force's latest budget request.
The Air Force plans to buy 29 new MQ-9 Reapers from General Atomics in fiscal year 2019, largely to replace aircraft lost in combat or those the service expects will be unusable.
The Air Force formally shifted the majority of funding for its Air Operations Center Weapon System pathfinder into research and development rather than procurement in the fiscal year 2019 budget request released last week, another sign of how the service plans to approach its agile development and operations initiatives.
The estimated price tag to develop the Air Force's new intercontinental ballistic missile is now $21.7 billion -- a 20 percent jump compared to the service's estimate last year -- a revision that comes after Northrop Grumman and Boeing were tapped last summer to develop prototypes for a Minuteman III replacement.
The Air Force has revealed the development cost of the Long Range Standoff Weapon to be $4.5 billion, nearly half the tab for the next-generation nuclear cruise missile the service tallied two years ago, according to service budget documents.
The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are seeking more than $400 million in fiscal year 2019 -- up about 160 percent from the FY-18 request -- to mature "game-changing" technologies for potential aircraft-launched, hypersonic-strike weapons.
A key experimentation campaign spurred by the Air Superiority 2030 flight plan is helping the Air Force move toward multidomain operations, its lead scientist tells Inside the Air Force.
The Distributed Common Ground System will reap the benefits of the Air Force's decision to double down on ISR capabilities with $450.3 million in the fiscal year 2019 budget request to speed its transition to an open architecture.