A House Republican is answering Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s call to repeal legislation so that the DOD can establish a combatant command for space.
The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.
Aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence algorithms could be flying operational demonstrations within three years, a senior U.S. Air Force official says.
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 helicopter is returning to Japanese army service after more than three years on the ground caused by engine unreliability.
The complete engine is designed to provide air-breathing thrust from the runway to Mach 5 and beyond for hypersonic aircraft and, in rocket mode, low-cost access to space.
NASA is considering the use of commercial rockets for what was supposed to be the agency’s Space Launch System debut, Exploration Mission-1, Administrator Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers.
The first task for the DOD's Space Development Agency is to design the architecture of a highly proliferated low Earth orbit sensor and communications transport layer to defend the U.S. from hypersonic missiles.
The USAF secretary blasted Congress for not creating its own disaster supplemental funding plan to repair Tyndall AFB after it suffered heavy hurricane damage.
A senior Republican senator is calling the U.S. Air Force’s approach to light attack procurement “schizophrenic” and says the service’s approach is “backwards.”
An air inlet design issue on the Northrop Grumman B-21 is resolved and the secretive development program is “on the right course,” a U.S. lawmaker said.
Singapore will retire its 60 F-16s by 2030, a government presentation suggests, implying that acquisition of F-35 Lightnings will be completed in the 2020s.
Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan characterizes the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request as a “masterpiece” budget, but the proposal already is receiving blowback from lawmakers.
The Pentagon would focus on developing payload sensors in fiscal 2020 for a future satellite constellation intended to track hypersonic glide vehicles to combat China and Russia, a senior official said.
