Among other provisions in the FY26 NDAA, congressional authorizers would direct the defense secretary to explore possibilities for recapitalizing the military services’ executive airlift fleets.
Boeing’s KC-46A and MQ-25 Stingray demonstrate next-generation capabilities that are transforming the role of the tanker.
After manifesting 1,400 payloads aboard the ISS, Voyager is applying its mission management expertise to the next generation of space stations, ensuring uninterrupted mission readiness and success from the ground to space.
"I can tell you, this is going to get re-litigated in the committee and on the floor. And I just want to make sure people have the full scope of information to make the decision," said Wittman on the F-35's next engine.
The A-10 lives, it BRRTs, it lives again!
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.
"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.
As threats evolve, the winning model ties digital engineering to manufacturing capacity and a reindustrialized supply chain.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates have announced an historic diplomatic agreement catalyzed by the growing security threat posed by Iran. The United States, concerned about Tehran’s regional and nuclear ambitions, is leading an effort at the UN this week to prevent the Security Council’s arms embargo on Iran from expiring on October 18. If […]
"The Senate is saddling the service with unsupportable funding requirements," Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group says.
Pressed by Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on when the KC-46 will be fully ready, Goldfein said the service is in final negotiations with Boeing about a "serious fix" for the Remote Visual System that currently has a dangerous blind spot when monitoring the boom during refueling.
Retiring the KC-135s and KC-10s before the new KC-46 tanker comes on line will have "significant impacts" on TRANSCOM's ability to fulfill its wartime mission, says Gen. Stephen Lyons.
As global navies adapt to evolving underwater threats, ASELSAN’s integrated sonar, countermeasure, and sonobuoy solutions offer a scalable, future-ready approach.
Although retiring the B-2 fleet could save the Air Force nearly $3 billion, CSIS cautions that doing so "would leave the nation without a long-range penetrating strike aircraft and would weaken the airborne component of the nuclear triad."
Amid chatter about what aircraft will make their way to Paris, the Air Force going all in.
WASHINGTON: While the Air Force accepted delivery of the first KC-46 today, Boeing could face a total of $4.5 billion in cost overruns and withheld payments on the initial $4.9 billion contract for 52 KC-46 airborne tankers, depending on what happens as the company tries to fix the plane’s Remote Vision System. How does that […]
WASHINGTON: Air Mobility Command, an experienced observer of gaining FAA certification for civilian aircraft rebuilt for military purposes, is using its knowledge to try to lower the costs of the replacement for Air Force One. The head of AMC, Gen. Carlton Everhart, told me this afternoon they hoped to find “efficiencies” in the process of […]