The first production EA-18G delivered in 2007 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, became the first aircraft inducted into the Operational, Safety and Improvement Program.
The Pentagon is diversifying the U.S. early missile warning portfolio with a mix of satellite types and sizes in different orbits to prevent unwanted missile attacks.
A notification sent to Congress by the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency confirmed that the U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of five P-8As to Germany with an estimated value of $1.77 billion, including sensors and logistics support.
A request for information published on March 10 by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center asked industry for a modernized airborne executive processor that can support a communications gateway system.
The Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft are based on the Beechcraft King Air 350/360 series, with a mission suite that includes active and passive sensors, and satellite communications.
The 552nd Air Control Wing issued the Facebook plea a week after two senior Air Force generals called for replacing the E-3G immediately with the E-7, due to reliability problems with the unit’s 1970s-vintage 707s.
Destroying enemy fighters has emerged as the initial focus of the U.S. Air Force's nearly year-old MQ-Next program, which seeks to field a replacement for the MQ-9 by the end of the decade.
Red 6, a California startup aiming to provide air combat training with augmented reality technology, has landed $7 million in new funding and signed former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper to its advisory board.
TransDigm Group announced March 1 that it will sell two businesses it acquired from Esterline Technologies, ScioTeq and Treality Simulation Visual Systems, to private equity investor OpenGate Capital in a deal worth around $200 million.
To maintain its technological lead over China in artificial intelligence, the U.S. needs to improve its leadership, train a new generation of digital experts by creating a new university, and invest in research on microelectronics and AI, according to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Cubic, a military training and C4ISR services specialist, will be taken private in a $2.8 billion takeover by Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management.
The U.S. Army has conducted an operational assessment with the Rafael Fire Weaver, also known as Smart Trigger, which the Israel Defense Forces fielded with combined arms units up to the battalion level to reduce sensor-to-shooter time.
The corporate team demonstrated a prototype form of a sonobuoy dispenser last October to show-off a potential anti-submarine warfare role for the U.S. Navy’s long-endurance, unmanned helicopter.
The U.S, Army was expected to work with an independent MSI on the pair of Future Vertical Lift programs: the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft and the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft.
The U.S. Army recently established a joint systems integration laboratory to test new technologies and determine whether they are a fit for Project Convergence ’21, according to the head of Army Futures Command.
MBDA has conducted demonstration firings of its MMP anti-tank missile guided to a target beyond visual line-of sight with help from a multi-copter drone.
