U.S. Air Force (USAF)

Japan’s SkyDrive has signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on heavy-lift drones with the Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation.

Space Force installations have Air Force uniformed security forces, logistics personnel and civil engineers who continue to function.

NATO has renamed its Alliance Ground Surveillance Force flying the RQ-4D Global Hawk to the NATO Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Force.

The U.S. Space Force’s long-awaited strategy for buying commercial capabilities will likely be released early next year.

A potential mandatory cut in addition to ongoing continuing resolutions have military officials blasting congressional inaction on Pentagon plans.

The potential overhaul springs from a review led by service secretary Frank Kendall.

Repeated sightings of a new form of low-observable features means infrared stealth technology is progressing out of military and industry laboratories.

The Pentagon has reshuffled how it presents its space-focused forces to combatant commands, modifying a scheme to have a broader goal of improving readiness.

With over 3,000 aircraft delivered since 1984, the Cessna Caravan is a workhorse of global aviation—known not only for its ubiquity, but also its utility.

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

A new book takes the wraps off the secret flight-test history of the facility in the Nevada Test and Training Range like no one ever has before. Listen in to hear from author Peter Merlin.

Readers write about Check 6, F-35 and Pratt & Whitney engine problems and aircraft carrier ops. Plus: Behind the Scenes at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center.

Air Space Intelligence has closed a $34 million Series B funding round.

Congress appears ready to give the military services limited authority to start new programs ahead of direct authorization and appropriation.

Congressional authorizers want a broad relook at U.S. Air Force and Navy tactical aircraft force structure.

The entire Bell Boeing V-22 fleet has been grounded.

The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.

The U.S. Air Force is looking to potentially outsource its training of NATO pilots on fast jets.

Leveraging cloud-native architectures can help the U.S. military modernize electromagnetic spectrum operations.

The U.S. Air Force has shifted search operations for the remaining missing crewmembers of a V-22 that crashed near Japan into a recovery mission.

Odys Aviation is developing an uncrewed cargo aircraft using a scaled-down version of its blown-lift hybrid-electric eVTOL propulsion system.

The U.S. Air Force needs to open up its high-end training ranges and exercises to AI and machine learning, its top civilian sasys.

A U.S Air Force Bell/Boeing CV-22 Osprey has crashed into the waters off southwestern Japan, killing at least one of the eight on board.

Hybrid eSTOL flies; sea-based high-speed VTOL; China’s electric regional; Piasecki’s tilt-duct ARES revived.

A preliminary design review for the F-35 Engine Core Upgrade is scheduled by the end of January, paving the way to start the next phase of development.