U.S. Air Force (USAF)

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore’s ministry of defense has confirmed that the U.S. Air Force sent the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk on a “short-term deployment” to the island.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will not go ahead with a full engine replacement for its Lockheed Martin F-35A.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is requesting $1.9 billion in RDT&E for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform, an increase from $1.7 billion in fiscal 2023.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is focusing heavily on maritime strike as it looks toward the Pacific with a need for munitions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force is investing in new offensive capabilities in space.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is again asking for permission from Congress to retire hundreds of aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to increase its buy of Boeing F-15EXs above what was previously planned.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Next-Generation Air Dominance to be approximately a one-for-one F-22 replacement, bolstered by collaborative combat aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Officials call for clean-sheet designs, saying commercial-derivative refuelers are not survivable.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
The Air National Guard has increased the numbers of F-15s it flies, and keeping them in the air has taken creative fleet management and intensive maintenance.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force recently deployed F-22s to a tiny, bare base in the Pacific for the first in a significant demonstration of its new agile operating concept.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall spoke to Aerospace DAILY March 8 in an interview at the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
DARPA selected GA-ASI in March 2022 to advance to the next phase of the project in March 2022, but a year passed before the manufacturer announced the news.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
A plan emerges to establish weapons-making capacity in Australia, starting with perhaps a new production order for Ukraine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The image, which the U.S. Air Force published on March 7, reveals for the first time that the inlets are shaped like sideways teardrops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Russian fighter jets have increased their operations near and over U.S. locations in Syria in recent weeks, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant general says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A new generation of design tools has allowed small companies to compete against industry heavyweights in developing high-performance aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has laid out an operating plan for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the uncrewed loyal wingman systems it plans to fly alongside fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has approved production of the Boeing MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter, with an award of $285 million for the first batch of aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to formally kill its KC-Y “Bridge Tanker” program as it accelerates its future Next Generation Air Refueling System.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will buy three new General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Ukraine has about 60 aircraft remaining, but those have been made “worthless” in the face of highly effective Russian air defenses.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The contractual milestone ends a four-year negotiating process with the F-35 Joint Program Office as the U.S. Air Force evaluates a replacement engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.
Budget, Policy & Operations