A trial for the program has transitioned into operational use.

The British Royal Air Force is to test Saab’s digital air traffic control technology at a Scottish airbase.

U.S. Special Operations Command has proposed to revive a former U.S. Air Force requirement for a light attack aircraft fleet in the fiscal 2021 budget request, but that does not mean a traditional fighter is on the shopping list, the chief of Air Force Special Operations Command said Feb. 28. 

Signing a five-year performance-based logistics contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by the start of fiscal 2021 is going to be a “challenge,” a Lockheed Martin executive says.

Lockheed Martin sees Poland’s defense industry as a potential low-cost manufacturing source for the F-35 program, as “upward pressure” continues to grow on aircraft prices beyond Lot 14 partly due to the loss of Turkey as a low-cost manufacturing source.

“We are looking at other options from China in the form of the Z-10ME,” Maj. Gen. Syed Najeeb Ahmed, commander of Pakistani Army Aviation, told the International Military Helicopter conference here in London.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is awaiting a “range of options” from U.S. Transportation Command on how the Pentagon should tackle the lack of aerial refueling capacity.

Current Arconic chief executive John Plant will keep the reins of the new aerospace-focused Howmet Aerospace, becoming executive chairman of the critical supplier and co-CEO alongside Tolga Oal.