AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Lee Hudson
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems debuted its MQ-9 Block 5 Ghost Reaper concept at the U.S. Air Force’s largest trade show, rebranding the counterinsurgency platform to fit the service’s vision for the Advanced Battle Management System.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed has established new testing and manufacturing facilities to support a notional plan to transition a self-defense laser pod to a tactical aircraft by 2025.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Steve Trimble
The potential follow-on order is one of three options in consideration for the Navigation Technology Satellite program (NTS)-3.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
Aviation Week editors discuss the roots of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance program, its use of digital engineering to speed development and some of the obstacles it may face in the future.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is on the hunt for attritable aircraft to round out its inventory, but the service may already have what it needs in the MQ-9, according to the manufacturer.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Steve Trimble
The Speed Racer project harkens back to the Skunk Works' origins as the company that built the first XP-80 in 143 days and the first U-2 in less than nine months.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Lee Hudson
The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Guy Norris
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion has selected BAE Systems to develop and integrate a fly-by-wire flight control system for the AS2 high-speed aircraft.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Mark Carreau
A British-led research effort has caught a possible low probability hint of biological activity in the high altitude cloud layers of neighboring Venus.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin F-35 deliveries postponed by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chain will not fully recover by the end of 2021, a company executive told Aerospace DAILY.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Steve Trimble
Elbit Systems of America will install pylon-based infrared missile warning systems for Air National Guard F-16s.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference