U.S. Air Force (USAF)

By Garrett Reim
The AFWerx innovation unit is focused on cargo applications for advanced air mobility aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Boeing has told the U.S. Air Force that nonrecurring engineering costs on the E-7A Wedgetail would be double what the service expected.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Air Force Special Operations Command is reviewing the role of its CV-22 fleet amid a three-month-long grounding of the fleet following a fatal crash.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble
The downselect will reduce the five bidders for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft to two or three, depending on funding.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
The aircraft has been delivered to New Braunfels National Airport, Texas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will stand up a new command focused on creating requirements for future systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
NATO is looking to adopt near-term, cheaper options to protect against one-way attack drones.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Beta’s Alia electric aircraft has participated in a U.S. Air National Guard exercise.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Australian government has allocated A$399 million ($260 million) to build three more Boeing MQ-28A Ghost Bat uncrewed aircraft systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
USAF has awarded Xwing a military flight release for its autonomous Cessna 208B Caravan and OK'd the aircraft for flying in the National Airspace System.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Aviation Week ranks the 15 leading companies in the nascent eVTOL market.
Advanced Air Mobility

Readers write about U.S. Navy E-2 Hawkeyes, maintaining airline pilots’ flying skills, and what should be done to solve problems at Boeing.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
As debate over design and cost continues, a group of military and industry experts eschewed most advanced Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
With USAF and NATO orders on the books, Boeing and Northrop Grumman seek additional customers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Turboprop runs on hydrogen; USAF completes electric flights; SAF from ethanol; Hydrogen light aircraft flies.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Multiple U.S. aircraft including B-1B long-range bombers conducted dozens of air strikes on Feb. 2 targeting Iranian officials and militias in Iraq and Syria.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy’s CMV-22B fleet is not “operationally suitable” because of failures of many of its subsystems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s operational test and evaluation office has collected all the data it can on the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will add an automatic ground collision avoidance system (AGCAS) to its Boeing T-7A Red Hawk trainer fleet.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Brian Everstine
The lack of fiscal 2024 appropriations will have a substantial impact on U.S. Space Force operations unless Congress can approve a new spending bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) in late January passed its preliminary design review (PDR) on an accelerated schedule.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Industry partners should also be able to participate in Space Force wargames and exercises to be exposed to what operating in a conflict will look like.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force is deep in planning for Rocket Cargo operations.
Space