The Air Force is nearing a decision on whether to recompete an ejection seat contract held by Collins. If the service changes course, it will send shockwaves through the duopoly that fights over every potential ejection seat sale.
By Michael MarrowIntegrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
Fear over a defective part led to grounding and inspection of hundreds of planes. After all that, only four problems were actually discovered. Was shutting down flight operations worth it?
By Valerie Insinna
The F-35 fleet was stood down on July 29th due to concerns related to the ejection seat propulsion system.
By Aaron Mehta
Earlier on Friday the Air Force announced that the majority of its F-35A jets were grounded to check on the ejection seat issue.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta
The stand-down follows the Navy grounding an undisclosed number of jets due to concerns with ejection seat safety.
By Valerie Insinna and Justin Katz
PENTAGON: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter possesses a remarkable array of sensors and processors to let it find the enemy and help the pilot kill or evade him. But the crucial threat library — known as Mission Data Files — just isn’t being developed and updated quickly enough, Brig. Gen. Scott Pleus, head of the F-35…
By Colin Clark
