Vanessa Montalbano

Vanessa Montalbano joined Inside Defense as an Air Force reporter in January 2024. She previously reported on climate change and energy politics for The Climate 202 newsletter at The Washington Post.

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Daily News | January 29, 2024

The Czech Republic today penned a final deal with the Biden administration to buy 24 F-35 fighter aircraft, worth about 150 billion Czech koruna or $6.5 billion.

The Insider | January 26, 2024

Boeing will commence the first 13 deliveries of its MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter to the Air Force this year, a company spokesperson told Inside Defense.

Daily News | January 24, 2024

The Air Force will focus on integration, sustainment and implementation in its not-yet-released fiscal year 2025 budget, two senior service officials said today during an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Daily News | January 23, 2024

Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans today slammed President Biden's nominee for Air Force under secretary over the administration's delayed response in identifying the Chinese surveillance balloon last year and her office's alleged mishandling of stored Southern border wall materials.

The Insider | January 22, 2024

The Air Force on Thursday awarded Lockheed Martin a roughly $65 million contract to produce three more of its Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar units, according to the Defense Department.

Daily News | January 19, 2024

Boeing has completed the final step for the KC-46A's Remote Vision System 2.0 critical design review, sending the application over to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Boeing spokesperson told Inside Defense.

Daily News | January 17, 2024

The Air Force is looking for industry partners to conduct research on 13 priority areas, mainly within the scope of munitions, according to a recently published market survey.

Daily News | January 16, 2024

Congressional back-and-forth over the annual appropriations bill is stalling progress on a key experimentation effort led by the Air Force to field autonomous fighter platforms.

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