The Pentagon’s chief technology officer, Mike Griffin, and his deputy, Lisa Porter, will step down from their respective roles next month and plan to set up a private venture, according to a Defense Department official.

As Textron Aviation plans to restructure and reduce its workforce, company officials have asked the Machinists union to open contract negotiations early. 

Eleven NATO nations have signed up to develop a multinational flight training initiative to support the tutoring of fast-jet, rotary-wing and unmanned air systems pilots. 

House lawmakers take issue with future reductions in procurement of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, which they say would leave the U.S. Navy more than one carrier air wing short of its requirements, and have instructed the Pentagon to keep buying the twin-engine fighters.

A House panel would allow the U.S. Air Force to keep fewer B-1 bombers in its inventory and slowly divest the mobility fleet as the KC-46A comes online.

A panel of U.S. lawmakers is seeking to add several new strings to the U.S. Air Force’s authorization for moving forward with the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and to block retirements of several aircraft that now perform the mission. 

The U.S. Navy has concluded that a combination of aircraft, flight gear and human conditions caused a spike in physiological events on T-45 and F/A-18 aircraft in 2017 that persuaded flight instructors to boycott their duty to train student pilots.

Britain’s seventh frontline Eurofighter Typhoon unit—also its first joint unit with Qatar’s Amiri/Emiri Air Force—has begun flight operations.