AI & AutonomyHASC Wants USAF to Lay Out Plan for Full-Scale Production of CCA Increment 1 The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the U.S. Air Force to lay out its plan for full- scale production of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1. “The committee expects the Air…
MilitaryDoD, Partners Demonstrate Beyond Line-Of-Sight Drone Cargo Flights In National Airspace A Defense Department development program to demonstrate uncrewed aerial logistics beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) in the national airspace has resulted in a series of successful flights, an important milestone for potentially making…
Editor's NoteB-52H Upgrades Face Supply Challenges BARKSDALE AFB, La.–Announced by Boeing in 2009 and first fielded in 2014, the company’s Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade for the B-52H has been to replace old displays and communications on…
MilitaryUSAF Says Wind Tunnel Testing Validated F130 Engine Inlet Redesign, As B-52 CERP Looks to Enter Development This Summer The U.S. Air Force said that wind tunnel testing that finished in early June validated inlet redesign of the Rolls-Royce F130 engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP)…
AI & AutonomyPrototype CCA Range to Be Greater Than F-35A and F-22 The range of the U.S. Air Force’s prototype autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is to be at least 700 nautical miles–greater than the 590 nautical mile range of the Air Force F-22…
MilitaryOperational Assessment Testing of IVEWS on F-16 Completed, Northrop Grumman Says Northrop Grumman said that it has completed operational assessment testing of the company’s ultra-wideband architecture AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters. The company’s Rolling Meadows,…
MilitaryUSAF May Fund Integration of JMPS with MH-139 Flight Management System The U.S. Air Force may fund the integration of its Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) with the Honeywell Primus Epic Phase 7 Flight Management System carried on the Boeing/Leonardo MH-139A Grey Wolf…
MilitaryVoyager Technologies Added To Air Force $46 Billion Agile Acquisition Contract Defense and space technology company Voyager Technologies recently secured a position on a $46 billion multi-award contract that Air Force manages aimed at rapidly delivering a wide range of capabilities, the company…
MilitaryGeneral Electric May Receive Up to $5 Billion for F110-129 Engines for Foreign F-15s The U.S. Air Force has awarded Cincinnati’s General Electric Aerospace a contract worth up to $5 billion to provide the company’s F110-129 engines for Boeing F-15 fighters and Lockheed Martin F-16s for…
MilitaryB-52 CERP Faces Concurrency Challenges, DOT&E Says A recently released fiscal 2024 report by the Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) noted concurrency challenges for the re-engining of the B-52 bomber fleet under the U.S. Air Force…