Budget, Policy & Operations

The root cause of a blade failure on the Rolls-Royce F405 Adour engine has been identified.

With an eye on contested logistics, service officials want more capable mobility aircraft sooner than originally planned.

The U.S. Air Force is undergoing a modernization effort to overhaul its fighter, bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile fleets as the Pentagon is shifting further to the Pacific, but even with all that change the service’s top official says there should not be a big change in its force structure.

Sweden should make decisions on development of future combat aircraft no later than 2030, proposals for development of the country’s armed forces have suggested.

Sweden is proposing to follow Australia and Norway and decommission its NH90 fleet earlier than planned after struggling with availability issues.

Cameri, which is operated by Leonardo, was built primarily to support production of F-35s for Italy, but the Netherlands also selected the facility for the assembly of its F-35As.

He stared down Lockheed on the F-35 negotiations, devised a politically-neutral tanker competition and ramped up Pentagon innovation.

A Boeing KC-46 took off from its home base in Kansas on Oct. 25 and flew west toward military airspace in Utah in a mission to test a new tactic for the refueler, one that has become controversial since the plan first came to light over the summer.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is prompting Europe’s armed forces to rapidly relearn skills that have faded since the end of the Cold War.

The U.S. Air Force next year will start defining what its future airlift capability will be, speeding up the work alongside an accelerated timeline for a next-generation tanker.

Former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper shares some of his memories about the former Defense Secretary, who knew science, technology and the politics of the Pentagon to tackle its toughest challenges.

The country's air force is one of the major beneficiaries of Berlin’s defense spending uptick.

The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, has detailed its thinking behind canceling the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear and retiring the B83-1 gravity bomb.

Despite differences between nations, space exploration should remain a place for civil collaboration.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.

Woodward is likely far from the last large aerospace and defense company to announce a post-pandemic business restructuring.

The service’s experiment has become the Pentagon’s lead JADC2 proving ground, but more work is needed to connect sensors and shooters.

Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.

Western governments are concerned about the trickle of information that could flow from experienced aviators hired for China’s military.

While the Air Force shifts focus toward a future KC-Z, some on Capitol Hill say the planned 2040 fielding date leaves too long of a gap.

An oft-cited talking point for critics of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is simply to state the program’s official $1.68 trillion cost estimate, which is usually rounded up to a cleaner $1.7 trillion.

Expeditionary units could recharge their equipment with laser energy redirected by UAVs.

It is hoped the initiative will support a number of aerospace programs being pursued by India with support from British companies.

Following FMS approval, Japan is set to become the Raytheon-made munition’s first export customer.