“This will easily be Buy American Act [compliant]. It’s not even going to be close,” L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik said of the effort with Brazil’s Embraer.
By Aaron Mehta
“I was asking myself, what would I say to myself in the aftermath of fatal mishap if we discovered that the reason for this was this clutch issue,” said AFSOC commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife. “Would I look back and say that I did everything that I could do today? And I couldn’t answer that in the affirmative.”
By Valerie Insinna
SDA Director Derek Tournear said his shop will remain its own when it formally joins the Space Force in coming weeks, giving the service another acquisition outlet.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Some people are still looking at this as a 1970s-technology aircraft. It is not,” Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, head of the Air National Guard, said of the F-15EX.
By Valerie Insinna
“We’ll do away with the GEOs, and the big, exquisite expensive satellites,” said SDA Director Derek Tournear.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force is “working with all the other services and combat commanders to determine what are their requirements for ISR that we can then work with our partners in the Intelligence Community to figure out how best to satisfy those requirements,” CSO Gen. Jay Raymond said.
By Theresa Hitchens
On the 50th anniversary of the F-15 Eagle’s first flight and its groundbreaking APG-63 radar that helped the fighter revolutionize tactical combat, here’s a look at the state of radars and mission systems today.
By Breaking Defense
Boeing will begin integrating Red 6’s technology on a TA-4 test plane next month, a company executive said, with “campaign-level” metaverse training dreams in the future.
By Valerie Insinna
The Space Force revealed its “Vision for a Digital Service” last May, which defined what the digital service would look like through four focus areas.
By Jaspreet Gill
When SDA joins Space Force in a couple weeks, their more agile acquisition cycle could spread to other Space Force offices.
By Theresa Hitchens
The first B-21 is set to make its inaugural flight in 2023, but the public will get to finally see it in December.
By Valerie Insinna
Polish military officials envision FA-50 playing a number of roles, and carrying a number of weapons, as the air force modernizes.
By Bartosz Głowacki
The Defense Department confirmed it had sent AGM-88 High Speed Radiation Missiles to Ukraine in August.
By Valerie Insinna
As China looms, the Heritage Foundation’s JV Venable argues for saving 33 F-22s from the chopping block.
By John Venable