The U.S. Navy has cleared the service’s first new standoff jamming system in more than 50 years to enter production. The Raytheon ALQ-249(V)1 Next…

Pentagon Kicks Off AI, Data Acceleration Initiative  The Pentagon is launching a new AI and Data Acceleration effort to quicken Joint All-Domain Command and Control development, according to a June 21 memo.

During Phase 1, L3 and Raytheon teams will demonstrate electronic intelligence (ELINT) and communications intelligence (COMINT) sensors under controlled conditions. 

A $10.2 million line item in the Air Force’s budget request for fiscal 2022 proposes to eliminate the EWO station inside the B-52, reducing the crew to a B-1B-like four. 

The Pentagon is sending a new $150 million package to Ukraine for counter-unmanned aerial systems, secure communications gear, counter artillery radars and medical evacuation equipment to preserve the nation’s territorial integrity.

The U.S. Air Force has restructured the Advanced Battle Management System program in a manner that will allow the service to communicate more clearly on Capitol Hill and to regularly deliver new capability.

The Air Force spared the U-2S from a list of hundreds of proposed aircraft divestments next year, but details buried deep within the fiscal 2022 budget request unveiled on May 29 reveal the aircraft’s long-term fate. 

Despite being named the U.S. Air Force’s second-highest modernization priority only months ago, the Biden administration’s fiscal 2022 budget request…