The Space Force will send its first guardian into space later this year as part of a NASA mission to the International Space Station, the service announced yesterday.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Space Force will send its first guardian into space later this year as part of a NASA mission to the International Space Station, the service announced yesterday.
The Air Force awarded the last of its indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for the Advanced Battle Management System last year, and the awardees are now competing to bring their capabilities to fruition as the service seeks to rapidly field technology for its contribution to the Joint All Domain Command and Control effort. (UPDATED)
Northrop Grumman will lose $1.17 billion on the first lot of the B-21 Raider’s low-rate initial production and will likely take charges on the next four lots, the business announced in its year-end earnings call today.
It's not the actual missile that's causing the drastic cost increase in the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program but the surrounding civil works components, a top Air Force official said today.
Lockheed Martin may not deliver F-35 Joint Strike Fighters enabled with Technology Refresh 3 until the third quarter of this calendar year, CEO Jim Taiclet said today. (UPDATED)
RTX Chief Operating Officer Christopher Calio will step up as the company's CEO in May.
Costs for the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program grew at least 37% above the 2020 baseline, triggering a critical Nunn-McCurdy law breach, according to the Air Force. (UPDATED)
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks recently signed a memo removing some classification barriers, which one top official said could help address classification roadblocks that are hindering collaboration on space throughout the department.
The Space Development Agency announced today it awarded up to $2.6 billion to three vendors to produce 54 total satellites for the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Defense Department awarded RTX a $345 million contract to produce 1,500 StormBreaker bombs, some of which will be sold in foreign military sales.
Pratt & Whitney doesn't plan on giving up on its next-generation propulsion efforts after winning the Engine Core Upgrade contract to re-engine the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet, Jill Albertelli, president of military engines, told Inside Defense.
The Air Force's program executive officer for command, control, communications and battle management along with the Army and the Navy will hold an industry day on Joint All Domain Command and Control, according to a notice posted last week.
The Air Force is assessing whether the nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile modernization program's cost overruns have breached legal thresholds that could trigger further investigation, an Air Force spokeswoman told Inside Defense.
While artificial intelligence systems may carry out lethal missions, humans will still be the decision-makers, a top adviser to the Air Force secretary said today.
Congress is set to order the Air Force to come up with a force design detailing what both the Air and Space Forces will look like through 2050.
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board will assess whether the service has the quality and quantity of weapons needed to win in a conflict with a near-peer adversary.
Funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Engine Core Upgrade program will run out after February 2024 if Congress doesn't pass a budget with the funding requested to ramp up the program, Program Executive Officer Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt told lawmakers Tuesday.
Congress would order the Defense Department to make nuclear command, control and communications a major force program and establish a team for cyber defenses of that program, according to the defense policy conference bill text released last week.
If proper security reporting protocol had been followed, the Air National Guardsman charged with allegedly leaking classified documents could have been stopped months before his arrest in April, the Air Force inspector general found.
Congress is teed up to place limits on several Air Force-requested aircraft divestments in its fiscal year 2024 defense policy bill.