US Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett speaks at the commencement of Air Force Space Pitch Day in San Francisco. Credit: USAF / Van De Ha. The US Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has held a Pitch Day in San Francisco, California, US, to enable the quick acquisition of technologies ...
US Air Force and Navy Seek to Balance Essential Capabilities with Shrinking FundingIn all recent conflicts, the US and its allies have enjoyed total air superiority and have, with rare exception, been able to largely neutralize enemy air defense systems. That is not expected to be the case in...
In 2022, the Air Force received funding for five new construction projects at Ellsworth supporting the B-21, and construction on a hangar to maintain its stealth coating began earlier this year. The Air Force has site activation teams working with the wings and local communities at th...
announced today that it has been awarded a $37 million multi-year contract by AFWERX, the Air Force’s innovation arm in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), as part of its Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program. The award will enable Piasecki to flight demonstrate...
The Air Force Cycling Team is built entirely of volunteers. All of or funding comes from donations and is tax deductible. Here’s some ways you can support us: Young Airmen Scholarship The cost of a bike, kit, event fees and travel expenses can be a lot for some of our young Airmen...
After determining that their technology could be a good fit for the government, EMPEQ looked into applying for funding through the US Air Force. “For us, given the US Air Force’s forward-thinking strategy, we believed they’d be a great fit,” Dwyer explained. “We applied through the...
The service hasn’t made a final decision on the fate of the 105mm cannon and what — if anything — would replace it, an Air Force official told Defense News on the condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly. AFSOC is using research and development funding to conduct an analysis ...
are flipping. If we meet our goal, we will have doubled the share of DCGS funding that goes to mission apps instead of infrastructure. And Pentagon cost-estimators who looked at other Air Force and Navy ISR systems estimate that the new DCGS will avoid roughly $600 millio...
“Let’s just go to the [Indian] Air Force. Most of those Sukhois and MiGs [fighter aircraft] are referred to as ‘flying coffins.’ Very often Indian pilots die when they are testing, or flying, those,” says Aparna Pande, a political scientist at the Hudson Institute in Washington. ...
UK-BOUND F-35A PAIR ARE VALKYRIES' NEW RIDE FLIGHT-TESTING HAS begun for the first two F-35A Lightning IIs for the US Air Force's 48th Fighter Wing/495th Fighter Squadron 'Valkyries', based at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. The Block 4 aircraft, 19-5473 'LN' (c/n AF-301) and 19-...