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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.
May 23, 2017
The news that the Dragon Lady will continue patrolling the skies indefinitely, revealed May 23 in President Donald Trump's budget request for fiscal 2018, is a reversal of the Air Force's previous plans.
May 23, 2017
President Donald Trump’s $19.1 billion fiscal 2018 spending request for NASA achieves a 0.8% decrease from current levels by terminating a robotic satellite-servicing demonstration mission and, as expected, trimming Earth-science missions.