U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Creativity isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about aircraft maintenance.

FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) faces long-running challenges in addressing safety concerns for human commercial spaceflight passengers.

Pentagon and Air Force officials have repeatedly said the Sentinel program is critical and must continue.

Congressional leaders are planning to increase oversight of the U.S. Air Force’s massive intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program.

An orbital propellant depot and fueling service are keys to the Starship lunar lander architecture.

The FAA has agreed to a pair of recommendations from a GAO audit concerning current procedures for investigating commercial space mishaps.

The fighter needs more cooling system capacity to keep electronics from overheating, but long-term requirements may entail major changes.

Does the U.S. Defense Department understand what is happening in the defense industrial base when it comes to mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

The Pentagon still lacks a plan to successfully wrestle sustainment functions away from the collection of contractors that now jealously own those roles.

NASA officials have acknowledged the evolving Space Launch System rocket is unaffordable at current cost levels.

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman see schedule delays for ICBM replacement as a massive military construction effort takes shape.

The Government Accountability Office in a report released June 8 says the Sentinel is behind schedule.

Production issues are causing a delay in deliveries of the first lot of Boeing F-15EX fighters to the USAF as negotiations continue for follow-on lots.

Development of the USAF’s intercontinental ballistic missile is falling behind schedule due to issues including workforce and infrastructure challenges.

USAF and Boeing are seeing the costs increase for a needed boom redesign for the KC-46 tanker as well as delays for the new Remote Vision System.

U.S. Air Force test pilots will begin flying the T-7A Red Hawk this month.

NASA has managed to improve the cost performance of 16 major projects over the past year, a GAO report says.

A new audit report blames a cooling system flaw that Lockheed Martin discovered 15 years ago for a problem that could cost $38 billion in extra repair bills.

The Boeing T-7A could receive a limited military flight release this summer, but faces the risk of new schedule delays as software and escape concerns linger.

The GAO denial of Sikorsky’s FLRAA protest shows the Army prioritized Bell’s submission detail and open systems architecture over Sikorsky’s much lower cost.

U.S. Space Command says it is on track to reach full operational capability by year's end, although its biggest hurdle has yet to be cleared.

The GAO on April 13 published a 38-p. report on its denial of Sikorsky’s protest to the Army’s decision to award the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft.

Bell’s tandem-cockpit, single-main-rotor Invictus is competing for the FARA contest against Sikorsky’s Raider X.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Jan. 13 published a report taking stock of ABMS.

The FAA’s recent shift towards working with certificate holders to resolve certain regulatory violations and its handling of safety complaints from employees are facing renewed scrutiny and some legislative changes following a Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee report on safety oversight.