The USAF has launched a new acquisition program to replace four Boeing E-4B aircraft with the Survivable Airborne Operations Center weapon system.

Spirit AeroSystems has completed its first integration of the 767 forward fuselage section, which doubles its labor content on the Boeing platform used as freighters and for the U.S. Air Force KC-46 tanker.

Ecuador has ordered six Airbus H145 twin-engine light helicopters for the country’s air force.

USAF researchers are setting up a $490 million, six-year program to rapidly develop, prototype, demo and transition multiple tech to counter small, commercial UAS.

Germany’s MTU and France’s Safran say they have reached accords on the development of an engine for the fighter aircraft at the heart of the trinational European Future Combat Air System.

Along with the acquisition of the five aircraft from surplus Portuguese stocks, the package also includes a modernization of the existing fleet mission computer system.

The Pentagon is “not concerned” with how the U.S. Air Force structured its launch services competition, even though the Government Accountability Office (GAO) partially sustained a protest by Blue Origin.

CAE on Dec. 2 unveiled an advanced training system for military student pilots built around a new virtual reality trainer.