Boeing officials recently demonstrated two separate efforts with the Air Force focused on aircraft mission and training readiness.
By Jaspreet GillInsights on digital transformation following successes on B-21 and Sentinel
Customers and employees are experiencing the ‘Butterfly Effect’ of digital transformation from key national security programs.
“We have hardpoints on the C-17; We have hardpoints on the KC-46. It’s not a hard stretch to think that we could put one or two missiles on there for self defense,” says AMC head Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost.
By Theresa Hitchens
The sixth ABMS onramp “was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim,” Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but “just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that.”
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: With its latest contract to Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken another step in its effort to rapidly develop a capability to drop bombs and launch cruise missiles to augment the shrinking fleet of long-range bombers. The Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract, announced yesterday and worth $25 million over 18…
By Theresa Hitchens
As Air Mobility Command looks to connect its aircraft to high-speed battle networks like ABMS, it is still struggling to get its KC-46 tankers working properly.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“You’ve got to create enough capacity so that long-range punch is really a punch,” Maj. Gen. Clint Hinote said.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Army has struggled for decades to fit armored vehicles on airplanes. The real challenge is getting them across rickety Soviet-era bridges in Eastern Europe.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
General Dynamics’ cancelled OMFV prototype could only meet the requirement for armor protection by growing too heavy to meet the requirement for air transport, sources say. So which will the Army give up?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In other words, the fault is not with the OCO mechanism, but in many cases, with members of Congress who are critiquing its use.
By Andrew Hunter
Air Force LCMC is working to ensure that far-flung depots eventually can print their own parts — with a recent first being Travis AFB’s using their brand, spanking new laser printer to print those toilet seat covers built of a new-fangled polymer from it’s own brand new printer.
By Theresa Hitchens
Amid chatter about what aircraft will make their way to Paris, the Air Force going all in.
By Colin Clark
For the first time, the US plugged its high-altitude THAAD into the Israeli missile defense network — just one of the ways the two countries are cooperating against Iran.
By Arie Egozi
The best way for America to develop a consensus on what our defense and global security commitments should be is for Congress to have a lengthy series of posture hearings that delve deeply into these issues. They could be jointly held by the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees from the two chambers, patterned…
By Peter Huessy
Fifth gen or fourth gen? F-35A or F-15X. Stealth, sensors and fusion or lots of missiles? Lockheed or Boeing? See what the Mitchell Institute says.
By David Deptula and Doug Birkey