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Jun 21, 2017
The U.S. Air Force F-35s at an Arizona Air Force base will be back in the skies starting June 21 after an 11-day pause, although the service has instated a temporary flight restriction following a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents.
Jun 14, 2017
As the Pentagon struggles to determine what’s behind a spike in hypoxia-like cockpit incidents across several U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force fleets, Cobham believes it may have a groundbreaking new method of pinpointing the root cause.
Jun 02, 2017
In a $10.7 billion wish list of items submitted to Congress June 2, the U.S. Air Force is asking for 14 Lockheed Martin F-35As and three Boeing KC-46As.
May 26, 2017
The U.S. Air Force is asking for $1 million to stand up the project in its fiscal 2018 budget request—the first time the new capability has appeared on paper.
May 25, 2017
The U.S. Air Force is kick-starting a potentially multibillion-dollar program to replace the E-4B “Doomsday Plane” and the U.S. Navy’s E-6B Mercury fleet with a single fleet.
May 24, 2017
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has accelerated development of the warhead-killing Multi-Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) by five years in response to emerging threats.
May 24, 2017
NASA’s fiscal 2108 budget request for aeronautics research keeps the agency’s New Aviation Horizons (NAH) X-plane program alive, but with a slower pace of new flight demonstration programs.
May 23, 2017
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) $7.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2018 includes almost $600 million over five years to finally begin addressing the hypersonic missile threat from Russia and China.