Rachel Cohen

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.

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The Insider | November 21, 2016

Lockheed Martin won a $1.2 billion fixed-price, incentive-fee foreign military sales contract from the Air Force to upgrade 134 F-16s for the South Korea Air Force, the Defense Department said Nov. 18.

Daily News | November 18, 2016

The Air Force continues to stress the importance of maintaining a robust munitions stockpile to its global partners, amid concerns that other countries are relying on the U.S. to replenish their weapons when they run low on their own supplies, a top Air Force international affairs official said today.

Daily News | November 18, 2016

Recent bumps in the process of awarding an integration system contract for the Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) advanced technology demonstration are not expected to delay the rest of the program, Program Manager Rich Bagnell said in a Nov. 10 phone interview with Inside the Air Force.

The Insider | November 15, 2016

Rolls-Royce this week announced the opening of its RQ-4 Global Hawk engine depot at Tinker Air Force Base, OK, a three-year effort marking the company's first public-private partnership with the Air Force.

Daily News | November 15, 2016

A redacted Defense Department Inspector General audit report on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System published Nov. 1 shows the watchdog’s original suggestion that the Air Force look at alternative airframes to tide over the aging JSTARS fleet was rejected by a service official because it “would require too much time and would not be cost-effective.”

Daily News | November 11, 2016

Nuclear weapons experts in Washington are scrambling to decipher how President-elect Donald Trump's administration might approach the current effort to modernize the nuclear triad, two days after the unlikely Republican nominee won the Nov. 8 general election.

Daily News | November 11, 2016

Northrop Grumman's latest Total System Support Responsibility sustainment contract for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, now in its 16th year, enacts new cost-performance incentives that could encourage the company to manage life cycle support time and spending more effectively.

Daily News | November 11, 2016

A Boeing official said this week the company does not plan to choose subcontractors in its bid to create the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent until the Air Force firms up its requirements, trying to ensure they choose industry partners who are best-suited to work on the service's final proposal instead of preempting Air Force needs.

Daily News | November 11, 2016

After announcing last March it would delay the full operational capability date for a next-generation trainer by two years, Air Force officials recently revealed in a closed briefing that program delays may cost the program as much as $200 million per year.

Daily News | November 7, 2016

Two master sergeants in the first group of airmen who were selected for remotely piloted aircraft training finished their first solo flights in a Diamond DA-20 Katana as part of Initial Flight Training Nov. 3, the first such flights in about 60 years, the Air Force said last week.

Daily News | November 4, 2016

The Air Force Research Laboratory is trying to shrink the size and price of future unmanned aircraft systems to build a disposable fleet that could be more cost-effective in highly contested combat that requires greater air power.

Daily News | November 4, 2016

The Defense Department's inspector general this week found the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System contracting officer paid out $7.6 million in unallowable award fees to Northrop Grumman by failing to maximize the cost-effectiveness of the company's sustainment support contract, according to a program audit report released Nov. 3.

Daily News | November 4, 2016

The Air Force is recompeting its request for systems to defend against unmanned aerial vehicles, asking this week for portable point-and-shoot equipment that can break the link between the UAV and its user as well as jam GPS navigation signals.

Daily News | November 4, 2016

The Air Force intends to ask Boeing to build 10 more GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs, about a year after it gave the company a $36.7 million sole-source contract to modify the weapons due to "urgent operational need."

Daily News | November 4, 2016

The Air Force last week announced it would take a phased approach to launching the MQ-9 Reaper's "Hydra Vision" program, a sensor-based identification technology developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Oct. 21 notice of contract action said the service intends to evaluate, select, procure, modify, integrate, install and test Hydra Vision into the Reaper, its ground control stations and squadron operations centers.

Daily News | October 28, 2016

Unmanned aerial systems need to move to a shared architecture as their role on the battlefield expands under the Defense Department's Third Offset strategy, Air Force officials said at the Unmanned Systems Defense conference this week.

Daily News | October 28, 2016

Boeing's current risk-reduction work on the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program could further shape the Air Force's requirements, if different designs lower the program's risk and life cycle costs, according to an Air Force spokesman.

Daily News | October 26, 2016

The Air Force's top uniformed acquisition official said this week the service is unlikely to release a request for proposals on the next-generation Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System until late November or December, after Congress returns and passes a new defense authorization bill.

The Insider | October 26, 2016

The Air Force will hold an industry day to discuss the distributed common ground system's integration backbone, or DIB, on Dec. 6, ahead of its expected request for information in the second quarter of fiscal year 2017.

Daily News | October 24, 2016

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James suggested this week that the service needs to "repackage" its existing technologies to counter the growing threat of small, unmanned aerial vehicles in the Middle East.

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