DoD Readies Counterterror Plan For Post Afghanistan Withdrawal
"Our budget accounts for 'over the horizon' requirements -- it creates some space there as we determine what that will look like," DepSec Kathleen Hicks said.
AFMC Plans ’23 Push For Digital Design
"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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Costs Plunge So ‘Rocket Cargo’ To Battlefield Takes Off
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.
Space Force Wants Extra $$ To Speed Deep Space Ops
The largest of the four categories is called "Develop A Warfighter Punch" and includes $279 million for classified programs.
B-21 Speeds To IOC; ARRW Test Slated For Next Month: Ray
The B-21 program will not undertake traditional "block upgrades" to beef up future performance, says Air Force Global Strike Command head Gen. Timothy Ray. Instead, it will incrementally add new capabilities as they become available.
JROC Tags Space Force To Make Satellites Link With JADC2
The JROC has tagged the Space Force "officially and formally as the integrator for all joint space requirements," says vice chief Gen. DT Thompson.
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Lockheed Martin Sees Hill Support For F-35 PBL
"There's a perception out there that Lockheed's going to take everything, and nobody's gonna be able to get in to support of the F-35," said Mike Miles of Lockheed Martin's F-35 logistics unit about the firm's PBL proposal. "That's not the case."
Space Force To Develop Tech For New Types Of Launch
The funds will support potential new space missions such as re-fueling satellites on orbit.
AF Demos C2 Networking Tech To Link Services, Allies At Astral Knight 21
The 606th Air Control Squadron successfully used TORCC during the May 13-21 Astral Knight 21 exercise to relay integrated air and missile defense and C2 information to to pilots, "including directions for missions and threat awareness," according to the 31st Air Wing.
TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand
The Joint Warfighting Concept will "envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility" within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
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ABMS Grows Up: Air Force Shifts Focus To Delivering Kit
A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a 'translator' for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.
Army Sat Ops Brigade Transfers To Space Force: Karbler
"Now we're just really working out the details for the timing that that will happen, and how frankly how it will happen," Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, Army SMDC commander, says.
Exclusive: DARPA ‘Likely’ To Demo Only 2 Blackjack Payloads
"We really focused on payloads that had tactical utility, because they were an underserved market," said Blackjack program manager Stephen Forbes.
HASC Members Blast KC-46 Ahead Of 2022 NDAA
"There's a lot of retrofit that will have to take place," Gen. Stephen Lyons said about the replacement of the tanker's faulty boom camera.