“We’ve been flying a prototype for quite some time,” said Steve Parker, Boeing’s interim defense unit CEO. “And we won the program. So that is a maturity stamp that I’ll give you right then and there.”
By Michael MarrowElevating the mission by modernizing the E-2D to keep threats at bay
The E-2D Airborne Command and Control surveillance platform provides prime protection of nations, including land-locked ones.
Boeing’s selection to produce the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter is a game-changer for the company’s challenged defense arm.
By Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna
“I think the question is whether this is a temporary thing, or whether it becomes permanent,” one industry official told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna
With Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy set to co-lead a commission that could recommend cuts to the Pentagon, many previously unthinkable options may be on the table for the US Air Force as the second Trump administration takes over Washington.
By Michael Marrow
This was supposed to be the year that the Air Force selected a winning vendor to build its next-gen fighter. Then reality set in.
By Michael Marrow
‘Everybody’s going to have to figure this out’: Army, Air Force debate base defense amid new threats
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall recently suggested his service could take over the task of defending its air bases from the Army, as long as adequate funding was provided.
By Michael Marrow
Advances in drone simulation bring mission training to quadcopters
The open QGroundControl software for drone control was improved with a fusion engine to integrate sensors and controls.
Any great power conflict, said Lt. Gen. Dale White, is “going to be a technologically based war. And capability development is clearly a warfighting function. We have to embrace that.
By Aaron Mehta
“I don’t have reservations about affordability of CCA, because I think just by their very nature, they want to be much less expensive,” Rep. Rob Wittman told Breaking Defense. “What I want to make sure of is that we don’t try to take a CCA that’s a basic platform and add a bunch of cost to it, because we have this requirement creep.”
By Michael Marrow
The Air Force is “tak[ing] a few months right now to figure out whether we’ve got the right design and make sure we’re on the right course,” said Secretary Frank Kendall, while other NGAD elements move forward.
By Michael Marrow
Perhaps no company has bet so much on the Air Force’s NGAD sixth-gen fighter effort as Boeing — and now the service could be dramatically reinventing the program.
By Valerie Insinna and Michael Marrow “The deliberations are still underway, there’s been no decision made. We’re looking at a lot of very difficult options that we have to consider,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said today when asked about the sixth-generation fighter.
By Michael Marrow In what would be a stark reversal for a high-profile program, Gen. David Allvin appeared to include the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter among “choices” the service is still making amid budget constraints.
By Michael Marrow
Despite disagreements with Boeing on pricing for the E-7A Wedgetail, Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter said officials still see the radar plane “as a capability that makes sense and that we need to field in the near term.”
By Michael Marrow
In an exclusive for Breaking Defense, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin makes the case for why the US needs to invest in the future of his service.
By Gen. David W. Allvin