“Let me be really clear here, because I’m not giving you a budget number does not mean we are not doing anything,” said Gen. Arnold Bunch, Air Force Materiel Command head.
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If industry can “turn this into a human transport mechanism — which some of the companies are talking about doing — sure the DoD would be interested in exploring options for that, just as we do with the airlines, and the shipping industries today,”AFRL’s Program Manager Greg Spanjers said.
By Theresa Hitchens “I really want industry feedback” about how to improve AFMC’s plans for incorporating digital engineering into its operations across the board, said Bunch.
By Theresa Hitchens
Gen. Arnold Bunch, head of Air Materiel Command, said that 64 teams are competing in the Advanced Manufacturing Olympics for a total of $1 million in prize winnings.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The Legion Pod uses an advanced IRST technology that gives 4th generation fighters the ability to ‘see’ stealth aircraft that traditional radar cannot,” says an Air Combat Command spokesperson.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I’ve been a huge proponent for colorless money,” says AFMC head Gen. Arnold Bunch.
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Gen. Arnold Bunch says that Air Tractor’s initial AT-802 offering “did not have ejection seats.”
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The nine startups are pitching everything from composite materials to small propulsion units that can enable hypersonic (i.e. faster than Mach 5) flight.
By Theresa Hitchens
We will probably never know much about it, but the Air Force’s top Electronic Warfare task force has completed its first scrub and should report to top service leaders in the next month or so.
By Colin Clark
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What Really Mattered In 2017 (Our Top 10 List)
This is a list of the most important stories and opinion pieces we ran at Breaking Defense in 2017. It’s a bit like our coverage: freewheeling, often unexpected and, hopefully, poking at the spots where policymakers in the US, NATO, Australia, Japan, South Korea and our other treaty allies and partners need to look. We…
By Colin Clark
ORLANDO: A half-dozen people in the Air Force are helping to define the service’s as part of a major new approach to deciding what weapons to buy, known as Strategic Development Planning Experimentation. The effort is led by Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. The first iteration of SDPE (as…
By Colin Clark
