MilitaryAir Force Budget Request Includes $120 Million for U-2 Aircraft The United States Air Force fiscal 2021 budget request includes $120 million for the Lockheed Martin U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, including about $48 million for the "high altitude, deep look" Advanced Synthetic Aperture…
MilitaryU.S. Air Force Upgrading C-17, C-130H Avionics as Legacy Supplier Base Falls The United States Air Force is undertaking a number of avionics upgrades for Boeing C-17 and Lockheed Martin C-130H transport aircraft, as the supplier base for legacy avionics systems falls, according to…
MilitaryHandheld Viasat Radio to Provide Link 16 Connectivity for Close Air Support and Other Missions California-based Viasat has received a $90 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from United States Air Force (USAF) Life Cycle Management Center at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio to provide USAF special forces with the…
MilitaryAir Force to Decide Which Satellite to Offer for Test at Defcon Hacker Conference The United States Air Force plans to choose on Dec. 13 which satellite it will offer to a service-selected group of hackers to try to infiltrate at next August's Defcon 2020 conference…
MilitaryDefense Authorizers Push for Ramp Up of Light Attack Aircraft for SOF Defense authorizers in the U.S. House and Senate are pushing for a ramp up of the Light Attack Aircraft to support special operations forces (SOF) on the ground. H.R. 2500 and S.…
MilitaryL2 Aviation to Install ADS-B Upgrades for U.S. Air Force KC-10 Tankers Collins Aerospace has awarded L2 Aviation a subcontract for installations of Mode 5 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) upgrades for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of 58 Boeing KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft, the…
MilitaryU.S. Air Force to Experiment with Avionics Networks for Light Attack Aircraft As the United States Air Force (USAF) continues its light attack aircraft program with the Textron Aviation AT-6 Wolverine and the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)/Embraer A-29 Super Tucano, the military service plans…
MilitaryU.S. Air Force Signs Predictive Maintenance Enterprise Agreement with U.K.-Based SDL A United States Air Force enterprise agreement this month with the U.K.-based SDL will support maintenance and operations personnel with technical documentation around diagnostic checklists and repair procedures and enable information sharing…
MilitaryBall Aerospace, Microsoft to Demonstrate Cloud Processing for US Air Force Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) project. The demonstration will show…
MilitaryMilitary to Have 2,936 Aircraft with ADS-B (Out) by Jan. 1, Air Force Says The Pentagon will have 2,936 aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (Out) by the FAA-mandated deadline of Jan. 1, according to the U.S. Air Force, the military service in charge of the…