AFA Warfare Symposium 2024

Over the past few months, the service, largely through its newly renamed Airman Development Command (ADC), has released a series of requests for information.

The U.S. Air Force is finally nearly ready to start flight testing a communications pod for the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.

The Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile recently completed multiple key tests.

A new effort to build and refurbish engine parts in-house has started to turn around powerplant problems with the U.S. Air Force’s T-38 trainer.

The global community should avoid doing commercial space business with China because it will support further growth of China's military space operations.

The U.S. Air Force is planning to use newly provided authority to jump-start two major acquisition programs ahead of budgetary authorization.

Lockheed Martin expects growing international demand to keep its F-35 production line running at pace amid a potential reduction in U.S. buys of the aircraft.

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

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.

The downselect will reduce the five bidders for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft to two or three, depending on funding.

The U.S. Air Force will stand up a new command focused on creating requirements for future systems.

NATO is looking to adopt near-term, cheaper options to protect against one-way attack drones.

Pratt & Whitney’s proposed adaptive engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter has moved closer to the detailed design review stage.

F-35 engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney still sees no risk to completing the critical design review on time by the middle of 2025.

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Swedish firm MilDef to strengthen the U.S. OEM’s bid to sell the C-130J Hercules into Sweden.

The only air-launched missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle in the Pentagon’s weapons road map sports a history as up and down as its skip-glide trajectory.

The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.

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

The U.S. Air Force will add an automatic ground collision avoidance system (AGCAS) to its Boeing T-7A Red Hawk trainer fleet.

A request for information for the Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) released on Jan. 30 by the USAF weapons directorate reveals minimum requirements.

As a major F-35 program upgrade stalls shipments, Lockheed executives reconsider their appetite for risk with the Next-Generation Air Dominance program on deck.