AI & AutonomyAir Combat Command’s EOU Tests Anduril’s YFQ-44A Last week, the Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) at Nellis AFB, Nev., tested an Anduril Industries YFQ-44A Fury prototype Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), which flew from a company site in southern California to…
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.…
MilitaryUSAF Seeking Advanced IR Countermeasures For HH-60Ws The Air Force is seeking industry feedback on an advanced infrared countermeasures system (AIRCM) that the service could use for its Lockheed Martin HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopters. “The…
AI & AutonomyWith an Eye To CCA Increment 2, Talon IQ Conducts Test Flight A “Talon IQ” Model 437 aircraft by Northrop Grumman‘s Scaled Composites has flown a mission autonomy test flight using the company’s Prism software and Hivemind software by Shield AI, the companies said on…
MilitaryUSAF Expects KC-135 Center Console Refresh Solicitation In May The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) KC-135 Center Console Refresh (CCR) program office at Tinker AFB, Okla., said that it expects to issue a solicitation in May after more than…
MilitaryRolls-Royce F130 Engine For B-52 Passes Altitude And Operability Testing, Company Says Rolls-Royce said on Feb. 24 that it has completed altitude and operability testing for the company’s F130 engine as part of the U.S. Air Force’s Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) modernization for…
MilitaryAir Force Acquisition Official: ‘APG-85 Is A Helluva Radar Unless You Don’t Have One’ AURORA, Colo.–While it may take two years to field, a dual-mount bulkhead in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 to accommodate both the AN/APG-81 radar or the twice as powerful AN/APG-85, both by…
MilitaryUSAF Looks To Replace Radios On HH-60Ws The U.S. Air Force is looking to replace the Link-16 TacNet Tactical Radios (TTRs) by RTX‘s Collins Aerospace on the service’s fleet of Lockheed Martin HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and…
MilitaryUSAF To Award Sole Source Contract To BAE Systems To Resolve Deficiency Reports on ALR-56 The Air Force is to award BAE Systems a sole source contract to resolve deficiency reports (DRs) for the company’s ALR-56 radar warning receivers (RWRs) on F-15 and F-16 fighters and C-130 airlifters. “This…
MilitaryUse of Commercial Technologies Obviates Need for C-17 Re-engining, USAF Says The use of commercial technologies for upgrades to Pratt & Whitney‘s [RTX] F117 engine for the U.S. Air Force C-17 airlifter by Boeing obviates the need for a re-engining of the 222 C-17s in…