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The authorizations add to a record haul of more than $90 billion in authorized FMS cases so far this year by the U.S. government.

The head of the U.S. Air Force wants Congress to expand a newly approved authority to start acquisition programs ahead of authorization from lawmakers.

The 204-page assessment is titled, “NASA at a Crossroads: Maintaining Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology Preeminence in the Coming Decades.”

The Senate has looked at ways to increase the topline.

The Space Force is now having conversations about how much funding for the MTI mission might be included in the fiscal 2026 budget request.

The service in its upcoming fiscal 2026 budget request, to be released next year, will increase the MG-139 program of record to at least 56 helicopters.

The operation is a preview of where Air Mobility Command (AMC) is trying to go as part of a broad situational awareness push.

The first of 20 operational MH-139 Gray Wolf helicopters now on contract transferred to Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

With a presidential election coming and a tense political mood on Capitol Hill, some lawmakers worry the political reality will make it hard to avoid another continuing resolution and knock-on program delays.

Senate authorizers want to take almost all of the remaining funding away from the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for its next-generation F/A-XX fighter.

The SASC says it wants a progress report on the Pentagon’s efforts to field new capabilities to monitor air or ground targets in real time from space.

The Taiwanese ministry of national defense (MND) says flight control software issues were the primary cause of delays.

As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.

The OK signals challenges for NASA to achieve ambitious goals .

The language is in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill.

Sikorsky and GE Aerospace are beginning the installation and testing of T901 engines on U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

The overall 160-page CJS legislation was absent details on specific NASA projects.

The U.S. Air Force has relieved the leader of the LGM-35A Sentinel Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program.

U.S. Air Force officials warn that resource constraints and shifting requirements put the Next Generation Air Dominance program’s existence at risk.

New allegations suggest that Boeing’s willful disregard of quality assurance in its commercial aircraft production remained in place as recently as late 2023.

Organizations representing business aviation hailed the formation of a bipartisan “sustainable aviation” caucus in the U.S. Congress.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says the budget plan for maintaining its fleet is “not executable” and needs to be fixed now.

Senators want a U.S. Space Force program executive office to manage the acquisition of satellites that can track both air and ground moving targets from orbit.

The V-22 fleet will not be fully mission capable until mid-2025 as the aircraft return to flight with strict restrictions and tests of a new clutch beginning.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson again raised astronaut safety as the primary pacing item for Artemis III.