Wednesday, November 12, 2025
The Air Force’s F-15 Eagle fleet is on track to receive a fresh electronic warfare suite, the Pentagon announced Monday evening, after approving BAE Systems’ Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System for full-rate production.
The Air Force last month approved a plan to replace old F-15C/D Eagle jets with newer aircraft considered more combat capable at three Air National Guard squadrons, according to a record of decision posted today in the Federal Register.
The Air Force and Navy secretaries, along with commanders of the combatant commands, must take a deep look at existing inventory requirements for air-to-air missiles and consider whether to adjust acquisition plans, according to the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Air Force last week approved the sale of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones to Canada to support the country's remotely piloted aircraft systems program, according to a Dec. 27 Pentagon contract announcement.
Incoming Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) is confident President-elect Trump's team will inject what he says are needed dollars into the Air Force's budget to revive the service's dwindling readiness levels.
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon have reached an agreement on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lot 18 to manufacture the stealth jet's frame and technical functions, the Pentagon announced today.
The Pentagon needs to fund the Space Force separately from the Air Force to ensure both receive a sufficient budget, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said today.
Even as the Pentagon warns that cyber is one of the greatest threats facing military assets and infrastructure, some acquisition executives are still willing to accept risk there, Defense Department cyber strategists said today.
While the Air Force is changing the way it deploys and urgently modernizing the kind of platforms it would rely on to execute certain missions in the Indo-Pacific, service infrastructure worldwide has fallen significantly behind, said Ravi Chaudhary, assistant Air Force secretary for energy, installations and environment.
As Air Force acquisition czar Andrew Hunter prepares to relinquish his duties to the incoming Trump administration, he anticipates the next executive to fill the role will face enduring obstacles around resourcing and integration.
House and Senate authorizers want the Air Force to create and put into action a plan to begin fielding air base air defense sites at service installations located in the homeland and across the globe, per the recently released fiscal year 2025 defense policy conference bill.
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board is scheduled to meet next month to conduct midterm reviews of studies directed by the service secretary for fiscal year 2025, according to a filing posted in the federal register today.
Some deliveries of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter would be temporarily fenced under the proposed fiscal year 2025 defense authorization conference bill until Lockheed Martin, the Joint Program Office and the incoming defense secretary create a plan to resolve any outstanding hardware and software deficiencies hamstringing the program. (UPDATED)
Recognizing adversary drone swarms as "the most significant threat at this time," the Pentagon is aiming to unify the military around a cohesive approach to address the challenge now and in the future, according to a Thursday DOD news release.
Part of the Air Force's mobility fleet will be tapped to receive a fresh connectivity suite, dubbed the Global Transport Platform-as-a-Service, as early as the end of calendar year 2024 or spring 2025, Inside Defense has learned.
The fate of the Air Force's embattled Next Generation Air Dominance platform will now be determined by the Trump administration, the service indicated today.
The Air Force has not wrung out all the wrinkles in its new force generation model which seeks to change the way the service deploys to be better prepared to deter China in a potential conflict, according to the government's top watchdog.
The possible ascendance of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) to the chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee could be a turning point in Air Force modernization efforts as the ranking member has pushed for boosting the existing topline for national defense spending by billions of dollars to ensure legacy and new platforms can rule the air domain.
The Collaborative Combat Aircraft designs created by Anduril Industries and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems have completed their critical design reviews, a top Air Force official said today.
The Air Force today accepted Merlin’s airworthiness plan to add its autonomous pilot to an operational KC-135 Stratotanker, putting the project on track for ground testing, flight testing and other demonstrations in 2025, according to a company news release.