Saturday, November 22, 2025
President Trump yesterday nominated Lt. Gen. Dale White to receive a fourth star and to become the first-ever Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Critical Major Weapon Systems, an Air Force official told Inside Defense.
The Air Force is asking industry how it could add Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System technologies to its fleet of counter small-unmanned aircraft systems to better combat small- to medium-sized enemy drones.
The United States is planning to sell F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Saudi Arabia, President Trump said today, marking a significant policy shift in the region.
An F-22 Raptor pilot supervised an MQ-20 Avenger drone from its cockpit in flight testing last month, according to an announcement from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, marking a leap in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft capability the Air Force wants to field by the end of the decade.
Boeing machinists in the St. Louis area voted today to accept a contract agreement with the defense contractor and return to work after striking for more than three months, according to an announcement from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Joby Aviation flew its autonomous hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator for the first time last week, the company announced today, completing the feat roughly three months after it initially revealed the aircraft’s concept.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is adding another unmanned fighter drone to its Gambit series that will be capable of operating in air-to-ground operations, the company announced today.
Anduril Industries' YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft flew for the first time today, the Air Force announced, furthering the service's efforts to field swarms of drone wingmen by the end of the decade.
If the Air Force is going to have a fighter force with "low" operational risk by 2035, as it detailed in a recent report, the government is going to need to figure out a way to pick up the tab for about 400 more jets, a service official told Inside Defense today.
After a nearly three-month stalemate between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the company is now intensifying plans to hire permanent replacement workers across several of its production facilities in the St. Louis area, according to an internal memo obtained by Inside Defense.
A majority of the engineers, scientists and other expert government civilians working within the Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX -- the service's innovation arm -- have been furloughed due to the prolonged government shutdown, a spokesperson told Inside Defense.
Over the next decade the Air Force wants to procure F-15EX Eagle II, F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance jets in greater numbers to meet homeland defense priorities determined in the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, according to a report obtained by Inside Defense.
The Airlift/Tanker Association has canceled its annual conference for industry and military leaders next month in Nashville because of the lapse in government appropriations, according to the organization.
Aerospace and software company Shield AI is entering the multirole fighter jet market with its new X-BAT fully autonomous aircraft, the company announced today.
Rather than waiting for the government to issue information or capability proposal requests, Lockheed Martin says it will bet more on itself by spending internal research and development dollars on innovative yet scalable systems.
The Air Force will no longer stand up the Integrated Capabilities Command -- one of the hallmark institutional changes of last year's "Reoptimization for Great Power Competition," the service announced Wednesday.
The Air Force will no longer stand up the Integrated Capabilities Command -- one of the hallmark institutional changes of last year's "Reoptimization for Great Power Competition," the service announced Wednesday.
The ongoing government shutdown could eventually set back the first flight of Anduril Industries' YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft, company founder Palmer Luckey said in a statement to Inside Defense.
Boeing will not deliver Lot 2 F-15EX Eagle II's on time because of the ongoing defense worker strike at several of the company's production facilities, according to President Trump's pick to be the next Air Force chief of staff.
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MD -- Despite his efforts to shift the Air Force's focus to the Indo-Pacific, service Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin may be ending his 39-year career while the Air Force instead structures itself to prioritize homeland defense.