Friday, March 21, 2025
The Air Force is preparing for the Next Generation Air Dominance platform by tasking one of its flight test squadrons with planning and running test campaigns for the future fighter jet, according to an Air Force news release.
The Air Force signed a $5.7 billion contract to transform how it conducts information technology work across the service, which officials say will streamline management and improve warfighters' user experience.
The Air Force is moving forward with developing a new radar station in Palau aimed at closing surveillance gaps in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command theater, according to a request for information posted this month.
The Mitchell Institute is calling for more Air Force fighter jets in a report to be released Thursday morning while warning of the "downward spiral" of the fighter force.
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Thursday not to authorize funds for the Adaptive Engine Transition Program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in its version of the fiscal year 2024 defense policy bill, breaking from the two defense committees on the House side.
As Congress is working on its fiscal year 2024 defense spending and policy bills, a Lockheed Martin executive has announced he backs the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter re-engine option that the Pentagon nixed months ago.
The House Armed Services Committee approved Wednesday an amendment to the fiscal year 2024 defense policy bill that would allow the Defense Department to award cost-plus incentive-fee contracts for construction projects for the Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program's facilities.
House Armed Services Committee members voted Wednesday to prevent the Air Force from reducing the number of fighter squadrons it maintains.
House lawmakers from two key defense committees are set to zero-out the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon's fiscal year 2024 budget, ending the hypersonic program that has been plagued by test failures.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee would continue to fund the Adaptive Engine Transition Program that was originally intended for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to a draft report accompanying the annual defense spending bill obtained by Inside Defense.
Defense software company Shield AI announced today it has formed a partnership with Kratos to put its artificial intelligence pilot on the XQ-58 Valkyrie drone.
The House Armed Services Committee, under the "chairman's mark" released Monday evening, would continue to fund the Adaptive Engine Transition Program for close to $600 million in the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill.
The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee would limit the number of nuclear weapons the Defense Department is hoping to retire in fiscal year 2024 unless it can show there won't be a capability gap, according to a draft of the subcommittee's mark-up of the defense policy bill released Monday morning.
The House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee plans to add additional oversight to the Next Generation Air Dominance programs underway within the Air Force and the Navy, according to a draft of the subcommittee's fiscal year 2024 authorization bill mark-up.
The Air Force One replacement aircraft being built by Boeing will be delayed more than two years past its due date, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
Production-related problems have pushed delivery dates of the Boeing-made F-15EX Eagle II, which could lead to further milestone delays for the Air Force program, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
The Air Force and Northrop Grumman are discussing changes to the schedule for the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile to remedy the "many deficiencies" in the current master schedule, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
L3Harris Technologies, and likely other defense contractors, won't continue bidding for fixed-price contracts, CEO Chris Kubasik said Thursday.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- In a cavernous manufacturing bay here, Boeing engineers can climb inside and around a B-52 Stratofortress bomber the Air Force loaned to the company from the boneyard. (UPDATED)
The Defense Department and Government Accountability Office don't fully agree on how to manage and report on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine and thermal management modernization efforts, according to a report released Tuesday.