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Market Sectors :: Air Force
Displaying 1 - 20 of 172 stories.
May 9, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The dual-year war-supplemental bill House and Senate lawmakers are expected to address next week includes at least $42 billion for buying systems including F/A-18 Super Hornet strike aircraft and an array of tactical vehicles. Aides said...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2611.html May 9, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford Three House panels yesterday recommended changes to the White House's proposed defense budget including tacking on up to four additional Navy ships, calling for irregular- warfare organizational changes in the Pentagon and adding nearly...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2615.html May 9, 2008
By Geoff Fein Defense officials are beginning a review of the roles and missions of the armed forces that will explore how the services handle unmanned aerial systems (UAS), intra-theater lift, cyber and irregular warfare, according to a senior defense...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2616.html May 7, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to take up a $183.69 billion multi-year war-supplemental funding bill as soon as tomorrow that would not include any additional money for the Air Force's F-22 jets. As House leaders have finalized the legislation...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2588.html May 6, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford If the Air Force's contested tanker contract with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and a European partner is overturned, it will be a "disaster" for efforts to accelerate cooperation between the United States and Europe on defense...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2584.html May 5, 2008
The Pentagon Friday certified a restructured program for Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The restructured program consists of two separate increments: the JASSM Baseline increment and the JASSM-Extended Range (ER)...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2554.html April 29, 2008
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has joined a team lead by Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for a follow-on Air Force contract for mission enterprise control support for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, Northrop Grumman announced yesterday. They plan to vie...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2488.html April 25, 2008
Aerojet [GY] yesterday announced it recently completed a successful full-duration development test firing of its innovative Axial HAN Thruster for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Raytheon's [RTN] Net-Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) program...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2462.html April 25, 2008
By Ann Roosevelt The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) deems successful it's ability to shorten the sensor-to-shooter link in its portion of the Air Force's Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) 2008, program officials said. "By using portions of...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2466.html April 24, 2008
By Ann Roosevelt The Pentagon's top acquisition official wants to find out when the Army and Air Force can merge their unmanned aerial vehicle programs and then accelerate the process. "It looks to my team like there are benefits," to merging the...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2445.html April 22, 2008
By Geoff Fein The Pentagon's chief weapons buyer is looking to a number of efforts such as competitive prototyping to improve program execution and help deliver systems and technologies to warfighters quicker. John Young, Under Secretary of Defense for...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2433.html April 21, 2008
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense (BMD)...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2420.html April 21, 2008
Another Minuteman Overhaul May Be Needed U.S. moves to form a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield help to avert conflict, much as the vast U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons dissuades any who otherwise would attack American targets, a general...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2423.html April 21, 2008
The federal government needs to step up to the challenge and fully fund myriad defense programs, specifically including procurement of ships, tanks, planes, missiles and more, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) stated in a new report. The AIA noted...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2424.html April 18, 2008
By Ann Roosevelt ATK [ATK] continues modernizing the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., even as the plant produces about 1.4 billion cartridges a year as the primary production source for small caliber ammunition. "The only remaining...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2406.html April 17, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The Air Force yesterday submitted its formal response to Boeing's [BA] protest of the service's tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC]. "The initial portion of the AF agency response was submitted to the GAO [Government...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2399.html April 16, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford A quartet of lawmakers sent Air Force leaders a letter last week suggesting the service pursue a new fighter-jet strategy to ensure it can fulfill its Air Sovereignty Alert (ASA) mission for defending American airspace. "Despite...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2386.html April 15, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon acquisition executive John Young last week signed a memo approving the purchased of six conventional-takeoff-and-landing F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the Air Force, a source familiar with the matter said. The acquisition...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2343.html April 15, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford Former Pentagon acquisition chief Jacques Gansler said Congress should not "meddle" in the Air Force's contested tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and foreign partner European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2350.html April 15, 2008
The Air Force does not yet know if a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle that ran off a runway in Iraq recently week can be repaired, or what caused the accident, the service said. "Our skilled maintenance craftsmen will evaluate the wreckage to...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/air_force/2356.html
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