The V-22 Osprey program office is studying future aircraft upgrades, including the potential to extend the fuselage for up to several decades past the current service life limit that runs
https://www.defensedaily.com/v-22-program-looks-to-extend-life-for-decades/navy-usmc/
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall flew in the front seat of the X-62A Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA) on May 2 during an autonomous flight from Edwards AFB,
https://www.defensedaily.com/kendall-flies-in-front-seat-of-x-62a-vista/air-force/
California-based EpiSci said this week that the company finished multiple collaborative autonomy tests last month under the U.S. Air Force’s Autonomy Prime program to train operators on the com...
A U.S. Space Force official on May 2 said that the Space Based Radar (SBR) under development by the Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will be a proliferated
https://www.defensedaily.com/space-based-gmti-radar-satellites-to-be-in-low-earth-orbit/space/
In another curious case of industry timing, Boeing said on Apr. 29 that the U.S. Air Force had awarded the company a $178 million contract for seven MH-139 Grey
“Boeing T-7A Red Hawk Triples Progress” was the headline of an Apr. 29 Boeing press release on the company’s trainer for the U.S. Air Force, but top Air Force
https://www.defensedaily.com/fielding-acceleration-of-t-7a-red-hawk-may-be-hard-lift/air-force/
The Department of the Air Force scrimped on fiscal 2025 plans to advance U.S. counterspace technology to deter China because of constraints in the Budget Control Act, Air Force Secretary
Senior Pentagon leaders on Tuesday were pressed on the department’s ongoing review of cost overruns with the Sentinel future intercontinental ballistic missile program, which is expected to be ...
Anduril Industries on Monday said the newest product in its Menace expeditionary command and control (C2) family is in production and being distributed globally, giving customers a small vehicle-...
The Air Force on Wednesday said it narrowed the field of the first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) technology effort from five to two teams, led by Anduril and General Atomics.
The Defense Department this week said it has awarded $193.8 million in new projects aimed at quickly fielding new technologies to warfighters, the second tranche of fiscal year 2024 awards
Shield AI, the startup defense technology company specializing in artificial intelligence technology to pilot aircraft, said that Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall will soon fly on the VISTA X-62...
https://www.defensedaily.com/kendall-will-fly-in-vista-x-62-ai-piloted-aircraft/air-force/
The Army is leading a study with Air Force participation to examine the protection of air bases from a wide rang of threats, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Tuesday added scant detail about two new space-related development initiatives that have been approved to begin execution before Congress has authorized and a...
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Apr. 11 that SSC’s Space Safari program office, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, and the Space Force’s SpaceWERX innovation a...
The U.S. Space Force has picked the second and third sites for for the Northrop Grumman Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), as the program proceeds apace, a service
https://www.defensedaily.com/u-s-space-force-has-chosen-second-and-third-darc-sites/space/
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is planning a test this summer of space-based Link 16 tactical messages to Norwegian military forces. Last November, SDA said that it
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week approved the kick-off of two quick-start space-related programs by the Air Force without having to wait for congressional author...
https://www.defensedaily.com/kendall-initiates-two-quick-start-space-related-programs/space/
While SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has attached an annual price tag of $400 million on what it costs to provide Starlink communications service to Ukraine, SpaceX is unlikely
As the U.S. Air Force nears a June decision on the path forward on the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said on April 9 that the
https://www.defensedaily.com/tester-doubts-sentinel-will-meet-fielding-date-of-2036/air-force/
Last week, the new heads of U.S. Space Force’s three field commands–Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Operations Command (SpOC), and Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM)–met in C...
https://www.defensedaily.com/u-s-space-force-field-command-heads-meet-on-future-plans/space/
The final Delta IV Heavy rocket may launch on March 29 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command said on March 28 that the rocket was
https://www.defensedaily.com/final-delta-iv-heavy-launch-for-nrol-70-upcoming/space/
While the U.S. Air Force has said that the March 17 third all-up-round test of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) is the last in the
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-says-future-hypersonics-will-leverage-arrw/air-force/
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the
Will U.S. Space Force or the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), or a combination of the two, have responsibility for rapid, within minutes commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) ...
About $1.5 billion of the U.S. Air Force’s $3.5 billion “unfunded priorities list” (UPL) request to Congress is to buy spare parts for aircraft operation and maintenance, including $564 mil...
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-requests-1-5-billion-to-fund-spare-parts-surge/air-force/
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that it did not include more than $42 million in its fiscal 2025 budget request for the missile warning portion of the Space Development
A House-Senate appropriations conference agreement reduces the U.S. Space Force budget request of nearly $19.1 billion to about $18.7 billion–a decrease of $529 million. The conferees decreased...
https://www.defensedaily.com/appropriators-reduce-u-s-space-force-rd-funding-by-530-million/space/
A House-Senate fiscal 2024 appropriations conference agreement says that it would add $277 million for three U.S. Air Force F-35A fighters by Lockheed Martin . The agreement would thus raise
By the end of next year, Boeing‘s small satellite plant in El Segundo, Calif., may reach an annual production capacity of 60 satellites. In 2018, Boeing bought Millennium Space
A mix of space and airborne assets is likely required for a future ground moving target indication (GMTI) replacement for the Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
The U.S. Space Force’s fiscal 2025 budget includes nearly $130 million for an Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) system to enable military forces to switch rapidly from one satellite band...
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is increasingly using fixed price contracts, even as the agency uses a range of buy options, NRO principal deputy director Troy Meink said on March
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said that it has ironed out wrinkles in Link 16 delivery from space to military forces over existing radios. Last November, SDA
The U.S. Air Force is requesting $235 million for the first production buy of 7 Boeing T-7A Red Hawk trainers in fiscal 2025, yet the service said that the
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is requesting nearly $248 million in fiscal 2025 research and development funding for a new program, Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Global (PTS-G). PTS-G ...
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sounded the alarm on what he said was a lack of sufficient, U.S. base protection against
To align with a proposed service reorganization to counter China and come up with funds for related modernization, the U.S. Air Force proposes to retire 253 aircraft in fiscal 2025.
https://www.defensedaily.com/air-force-wants-to-retire-253-planes-in-fiscal-2025/air-force/
The fiscal 2024 congressional funding impasse has delayed development of a concept of operations (CONOPS) for the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones, Air Force officials sa...
The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2025 budget boosts funding for Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) by $980 million over last year’s request. For fiscal 2025, the service budgets $2.7 billion
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-boosts-ngad-cca-request-by-980-million-in-fiscal-2025/air-force/
The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2025 budget contains $375 million–$77 million more than last year’s request–for the $8.8 billion Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) program. Last September, Northro...
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-budgets-375-million-for-siaw-in-fiscal-2025/air-force/
The fiscal limits in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “We made a tradeoff
The Department of the Air Force’s $217.5 billion fiscal 2025 budget requests $3.7 billion for the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A future ICBM–an amount even with last year’s ask, as the
The Defense Department approved all variants of the V-22 Ospreys for flight clearance following a months-long review into the cause of a deadly Air Force crash in November. Naval Air
https://www.defensedaily.com/v-22s-cleared-to-fly-again/air-force/
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a number of small satellites for the company’s Transporter-10 project launched on March 4 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. Such birds included Arcfield...
https://www.defensedaily.com/eo-ir-cubesat-tech-demo-on-spacex-transporter-10-mission/space/
An upcoming all-up-round (AUR) test of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) will conclude its rapid prototyping and help determine future U.S. Air Force hyperso...
This summer, the U.S. may finalize an acquisition strategy for a “gapfiller” tanker to fill a five-year hiatus between the delivery of the 179th and final Boeing KC-46A Pegasus
https://www.defensedaily.com/usaf-may-finalize-gapfiller-tanker-strategy-this-summer/air-force/
On March 6, “the first ferry cell” of three Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70s, built in Greenville, S.C., flew to Bahrain, Lockheed Martin said. In June 2018, the U.S.
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is likely to follow the U.S. Army’s lead on tactical electrical vehicles–those designed or modified to military specification for training and combat ope...
U.S. Central Command said on March 5 that Special Operations Task Group-Central (SOTG-C) and Air Forces Central airmen recently had hands-on training for the rapid installation and delivery of pa...