The Air Force's Rapid Sustainment Office is seeking industry feedback for advanced manufacturing to reduce sustainment and operational costs along with improving mission readiness.
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The Air Force's Rapid Sustainment Office is seeking industry feedback for advanced manufacturing to reduce sustainment and operational costs along with improving mission readiness.
The Air Force will stand up its first University Affiliated Research Center focused on tactical autonomy, which will be awarded to a historically black college or university, the service announced Monday.
BAE Systems received an 18-year, $12 billion contract to continue supporting the Air Force’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile inventory, the company announced Monday.
The Air Force demonstrated its new beyond line-of-sight communication system for the B-52 bomber last week, moving one step forward in an upgrade officials say is vital.
The House Armed Services Committee has passed a fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill that would order several studies on and limitations of Defense Department efforts to modernize the nuclear triad.
The House Armed Services cyber subcommittee is calling for a Government Accountability Office review of the Air Force's modernization efforts for Link 16.
The National Nuclear Security Administration will not be able to meet demands for plutonium pit production within the timeline called for by Congress, the Energy Department's Under Secretary for Nuclear Security Jill Hruby recently told Congress.
A crucial software development arm of the Air Force received approval to use a relatively new Software Acquisition Pathway that will allow it to advance technology to warfighters more quickly.
The Air Force One replacement could now be delayed up to 36 months, potentially adding another year to the embattled program's timeline, the Air Force acquisition chief said Thursday.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking information from industry on the capability and capacity for domestic production of position, navigation and guidance components for hypersonic systems, according to an online solicitation posted this month.
The Air Force successfully tested its Air-launched Rapid Response hypersonic missile Saturday, the service announced this week.
The Defense Department announced today it has renewed the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
The Defense Department is seeking to modify existing laws to allow it to protect overseas facilities from unmanned aircraft systems, according to a recently released batch of legislative proposals.
The Air Force will begin development of a new battle management system to protect air bases from airborne threats should the request in the fiscal year 2023 budget pass, according to recently released justification books.
The Air Force awarded another $76 million to a company developing open systems architecture for an Operational Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System.
The Air Force released a draft request for proposals Monday for its Enterprise Cyber Capabilities program and announced it will hold a pre-solicitation conference for the program later this month.
Survivability and quality should be the Air Force's focus, service Secretary Frank Kendall said, compared to former-Defense Secretary Gen. Jim Mattis' priority of lethality and the Cold War-era mindset of maintaining the highest quantity of platforms.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Thursday successfully tested an airborne method of sinking ships.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed two of President Biden's nominees for assistant Air Force secretaries.