Air Force
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Air ForceLess Than $400 Million Needed to Modify VC-25B Bridge Aircraft, USAF Estimates
The nearly decade-long program to develop and field two VC-25B Air Force One planes by Boeing [BA] has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the […]
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Air ForceAddition Of Production Lines For F-15EX Eyed By USAF, MQ-9 Follow-On In Works
The U.S. Air Force is negotiating with Boeing [BA] a multi-year procurement buy for the company’s F-15EX Eagle II and the possible opening of a second and third production line […]
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SpaceSPACECOM Chief: Maneuver Needed For High Value Satellites
While safety in numbers is a defining trait of low Earth orbit satellites, including those in the Space Development Agency’s future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, key geosynchronous orbit satellites, such […]
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Air ForceNGAP Contenders Complete Assembly Readiness Reviews For Prototype Engines
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney and GE Aerospace [GE] said that they have completed assembly readiness reviews for their XA103 and XA102 engines, respectively, for the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion […]
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Air ForceUSAF To Meet With Companies On Support Equipment For B-52 CERP
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to modify two B-52H bombers later this year for the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), the bomber directorate’s contracting office at Tinker AFB, Okla., […]
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SpaceSpace Control Budget More Than Doubles To About 30 Percent Of Space Force Request
Space Control is about 30 percent of the Space Force’s fiscal 2027 budget request of $71 billion, which is to include $12 billion in a future reconciliation bill, according to […]
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CongressWith $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects
With the Trump administration’s push to massively increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion in fiscal year 2027, the Army, Air Force and Navy have eschewed submitting large unfunded priorities lists […]
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Air ForceAir Force Examining Government-Owned Technical Data Library For B-2
Under an Air Force Supply Chain Velocity initiative for the service’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber by Northrop Grumman [NOC], the service would create a government-owned technical data library through reverse […]
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Air ForceAir Force Plans $1.7 Billion Retrofit Of APG-85 Radar On 181 F-35As In Lot 17 And Prior
The Air Force’s fiscal 2027 future years defense plan (FYDP) contains more than $1.7 billion to retrofit 181 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As in Lot 17 and prior with the future […]
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Business/FinancialSkunk Works Head Named President of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Orlando “OJ” Sanchez, Jr., the vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, is to become president of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Aeronautics business on June 1, the company […]