A House Armed Services Committee subcommittee ranking member is sharply critical of how both the U.S. Air Force and Boeing are managing the KC-46A program and the fact its that troubles are forcing the military to continue funding older aircraft.

NASA’s top contractor remains Boeing, followed closely by second-place Lockheed Martin, the agency’s fiscal 2020 Annual Procurement Report, released May 18, shows.

The U.S. Army’s 35 modernization priorities all survived budget reviews in the first months of the Biden Administration for the fiscal 2022 budget request, but there may be a wave of major spending changes in fiscal 2023.

German aircraft responding to Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) missions will be able to operate in Polish airspace and vice-versa in an arrangement that mirrors a similar pact between the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Gen. Charles Brown singled out the Advanced Battle Management System as a top priority for research and development funding, but the program has become a punching bag for Congress.

House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Anthony Brown (D-Md.) said he believes the fiscal 2022 defense policy bill will not pass the full House until after the August recess.

The UK Royal Air Force is looking to deploy its Eurofighter Typhoons as well as the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) Voyager to Southeast Asia in October to participate in a milestone edition of Exercise Bersama Lima.

In a long-running drama, the U.S. Air Force and Congress have been at odds over which aircraft to retire and which ones to keep. Though the Biden administration has yet to release its budget, the Air Force’s hit list already includes the KC-10 and KC-135 tankers as well as the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV.