MilitaryF-35 Program And Lockheed Martin To Finish F-35 PTMS Analysis Soon, As HASC Argues Block 4 “Underfunded” The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin are undertaking a Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) analysis to specify what systems the fighter will need to have between 62 kilowatts…
MilitaryRedwire Says Awarded Large Drone Contract From NATO Ally Redwire Corp. on Tuesday said it received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from a NATO ally to deliver the company’s Penguin Mk3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Redwire said the contract is valued in…
MilitaryMQ-25 Okayed For Production With Milestone C Approval The Navy on May 19 announced the Boeing MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft officially received its Milestone C approval, setting it up for Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) later this year. The service…
MilitaryLess 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 has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the service estimates that the cost…
MilitaryUSAF 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., is to…
MilitaryMarines Tap Sikorsky, Robinson’s Unmanned R66 For Medium Resupply Drone Development Effort The Marine Corps has selected Sikorsky and Robinson Helicopter’s R66 Turbinetruck for the second increment of the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle–Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) development program, the companies said on April 27. Sikorsky said it…
MilitaryAPG-85 Fielding May Come 9 Months Early, Estimated Unit Cost Of $8.8 Million The Air Force now expects to receive the first Northrop Grumman APG-85 radar for the F-35A fighter by Lockheed Martin in April 2028–nine months earlier than previously scheduled, according to the service’s fiscal 2027 procurement…
MilitaryNavy’s MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Finishes First Test Flight The first Boeing MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft conducted its first flight test on April 25, a year later than previously planned, the Navy and Boeing revealed on April 27. The test…
MilitaryArmy’s Work With H-60Mx Black Hawk To Inform Bringing Autonomy To MV-75 FLRAA NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Army and Sikorsky officials said April 16 the service’s new Black Hawk outfitted to fly autonomously is serving as a testbed for bringing autonomy capability to the future MV-75 Cheyenne II…
AI & AutonomyGA-ASI Lays Out No Date for Resumption Of YFQ-42A Flights After Mishap General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has paused flight testing of the company’s YFQ-42A Dark Merlin prototype drone for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program after a mishap about 1 p.m.…
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