MilitaryUS Air Force Picks LIFT Airborne Technologies’ Helmet for Fixed Wing Aircraft The U.S. Air Force has picked California-based LIFT Airborne Technologies‘ AV 2.2 helmet to serve as the Next Generation Fixed Wing helmet. LIFT Technologies’ offering was competing in the prototype phase against two…
MilitaryCanada Chooses F-35A in Future Fighter Competition The government of Canada on March 28 said that it has begun negotiations with Lockheed Martin on a buy 0f 88 F-35As under the country’s Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP) to replace Canada’s aging…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Skunk Works to Get New Chief Lockheed Martin said on March 14 that it has named John Clark as the new vice president and general manager of the company’s Skunk Works’ classified development arm. Clark is a 23-year…
Embedded AvionicsF-35 Program Seeks Innovation to Improve RTOS Cyber Event Detection and Response The F-35 Joint Program Office is looking to industry for ideas to improve the cybersecurity of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter and associated ground systems under a new JPO Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense Challenge.…
MilitaryBoeing Expects to Resolve KC-46 Flight Management, Drain Tube Issues This Year This year, Boeing is redesigning a drain tube for its KC-46A Pegasus tanker for the U.S. Air Force and is working with General Electric to resolve a flight management system instability issue that can…
MilitaryAerospace Companies Suggest Possible 5G Interference with Military Radars U.S. aerospace firms are suggesting that an upcoming 5G rollout by AT&T and Verizon could lead to harmful interference with military radar altimeters. Earlier this month, the wireless companies said that they…
Air TaxiAFWERX Director Notes Potential of eVTOL for Air Force Personnel Recovery Air Force Col. Nathan Diller, the director of the service’s AFWERX innovation arm, this week noted the potential of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles for Air Combat Command personnel recovery…