Air Mobility Command plans to launch a year-long analysis in the hopes of resolving several fundamental questions about the U.S. Air Force’s next tanker.

The Netherlands and Austria are to cooperate on procurement of the Embraer C-390 airlifter, Austrian defense officials have said.

The potential Foreign Military Sale to the “major non-NATO ally” has entered the Congressional notification process, the State Department added.

Kazakhstan, which placed its order in 2021, is the second export customer of the Airbus A400M, after Malaysia, and the ninth country to purchase the airlifter.

The U.S. Air Force wants to modify 326 of its Boeing C/KC-135 aircraft to have commercial access to both secure and nonsecure satellite communications.

The U.S. Navy has begun modifications to its P-8 sub-hunting fleet with delivery of the first aircraft to Boeing for the Increment 3 Block 2 update.

USAF plans to complete certification of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk on its newest tanker, in spite of the fleet having been retired from “official” service.

The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry for multiple categories of propulsion to power future tankers.