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U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall tells Aerospace DAILY that he has expanded the service’s effort to improve its electronic warfare capabilities.

General Atomics has acquired EO Vista, a company that develops electro-optical sensors for satellites and aircraft.

The U.S. plan for TacAir has many strands, providing multiple opportunities for angst—or catastrophe.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Northrop Grumman is starting tests on the next stealth bomber, while industry is floating multiple concepts for collaborative combat aircraft.

The request for information (RFI) was published on Sept. 15 by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

A three-blade test article was delivered to Holloman AFB, New Mexico, for a demonstration of the folding rotor at representative flight speeds.

Boeing and Red 6 have integrated and flown an augmented reality headset in a TA-4J jet trainer.

T-38, T-45 face decreasing mission capable rates, grounding due to aging powerplants.

The U.S. Air Force on Sept. 12 was signing the paperwork and getting ready to receive its first T-7A Red Hawk training jet.

The U.S. Air Force is giving the public new peeks at its secretive B-21 Raider bomber.

The project is dubbed the Enhanced Collaborative High-Frequency Orientation System (ECHOS).

BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies has delivered the first EC-37B Compass Call aircraft to the U.S. Air Force for developmental and operational testing.

The creation of the independent council follows last year’s announcement of a strategic partnership with Northrop Grumman.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Sept. 11 used what is typically his largest stage.

“The Air and Space Forces must change, or we’ll fail to prevent, or lose, a war,” U.S. Air Force SecretaryKendall says.

The company is demonstrating the platform at its Littleton, Colorado, campus.

To get there, AMC boss Gen. Mike Minihan says he is in the short term looking at year’s-end funding changes.

The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation unit plans to sign a memorandum of understanding in October with the FAA to gather flight-testing data for the regulator.

U.S. startup Jump Aero has unveiled the aircraft concept and initial business model for its JA1 Pulse first-response aircraft.

Rolls-Royce is poised to begin a third phase of ground tests with a pair of dual-podded F130 turbofans for the U.S. Air Force’s B-52J re-engining program.

Anduril Industries has acquired North Carolina-based Blue Force Technologies (BFT) and the small firm’s large uncrewed aircraft system development program.

The new acting head of the U.S. Marine Corps will elevate the head of safety role to a general officer by next summer amid a review of operations.

A two-decade trend of failed X-plane projects at the agency appears to be reversing, with a recent switch to a scaled-down approach producing results.

Predicting contrail cirrus; Autonomy proving ground; eVTOL river crossing; Electric regional seaplane.