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Heavy lift modernization to help enable all-domain operations needs to progress.
By Breaking DefenseA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
A one year delay for the MQ-25 program is certain to have repercussions for the Navy’s ongoing strike fighter shortfall.
By Justin Katz
“Of course, I would like to be part of an open competition when it comes to airborne early warning and surveillance,” Saab CEO Micael Johansson said. “But whether that’s possible or not in the US, I don’t know.”
By Valerie Insinna
With the Army focused on FLRAA and FARA, the question of heavy lift under the Future Vertical Lift program won’t be answered for a decade or more. In the meantime, here’s what the Army is thinking.
By Barry Rosenberg
A new report by the Hudson Institute projects the Pentagon is liable to be outdone by China if it fails to more heavily invested in the Air Force’s aerial refueling capabilities.
By Justin Katz
“I’m very confident that the Air Force is choosing the E-7 to replace its E-3 fleet,” Mike Manazir, Boeing’s vice president for defense business development, said during a news conference ahead of the Dubai Airshow.
By Valerie Insinna Boeing became the first international operator of the KC-46 on Oct. 31.
By Valerie Insinna
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
General Electric, which produced the GE F110-129 engines for the first lot of eight F-15EX aircraft, will continue manufacturing the propulsion system for the rest of the program of record.
By Valerie Insinna
“Every day, [the T-38] becomes just another step more disconnected from the advanced avionics, advanced sensing, the advanced processing that our modern fighters have. And so we can’t fill that void fast enough,” said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Valerie Insinna
The Army wants to demonstrate a 300 kilowatt laser weapon in fiscal 2022.
By Andrew Eversden
The takeaway from the last 20 years, according to aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia, might well be, “You succeeded, but please don’t try that again.”
By Valerie Insinna
The upcoming sole source contract to Boeing for more data on the Wedgetail suggests that the service may seek to eschew a competition.
By Valerie Insinna
“The farther it flies, the faster it flies, because it’s scooping up more oxygen, and that also helps you to avoid detection,” a Boeing executive said of the Ramjet design.
By Valerie Insinna
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With greater lift and increased commonality, the Army’s heavy-lift helicopter just keeps getting better.
By Boeing
