Boeing C-17

By Brian Everstine
Milestones loom in the coming months for future refueler and airlifter programs amid funding uncertainty.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
LQMs are sophisticated machine-learning models that are trained on vast amounts of data generated using physics-based methods.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The deployment plan overhauls how personnel prepare to deploy, creating four six-month stages.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The early planning comes as the service is standing up its new Integrated Capabilities Command to look across its mission sets for new acquisition programs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The service’s Operational Energy office has outlined several programs aimed at increasing the efficiency of military aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force leaders say the service’s mobility fleet of tankers and airlifters need to become more connected to each other.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
Top service official says tanker, fighter and Collaborative Combat Aircraft plans are unaffordable without large changes.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military’s aeromedical evacuation (AE) personnel have become very specialized and good at what they do.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
This year, that operational requirement comes as the U.S. Air Force also undergoes a large-scale overhaul of its force structure.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Defense Department Inspector General on Oct. 29 released an investigation into Boeing’s performance-based logistics contract for the C-17.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
Responses to the RFI are expected to feature an eclectic mix of solutions to the problem.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The operation is a preview of where Air Mobility Command (AMC) is trying to go as part of a broad situational awareness push.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force has awarded startup SandboxAQ additional funding to further develop its quantum-sensor magnetic navigation system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force’s engine office says it is open to all option to power a future air refueling aircraft and a potential re-engining of the C-17 as requirements are refined.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Plans to replace the three main fleets of mobility aircraft remain decades away, following the production run of the Next Generation Aerial Refueling System.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
DARPA is likely to make a down select for a high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype program within weeks.
Army Aviation Association of America

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has deployed its new ground-launched cruise missile capability for the first time, setting up the mid-range capability (MRC) in the Philippines for an exercise.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry for multiple categories of propulsion to power future tankers.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brandon Patrick
The venerable C-130’s cargo capacity, lower speed threshold and commonality across the region make it ideal for relief operations over the Gaza Strip.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Brian Everstine
Reengining the C-17 and adding low-cost connectivity upgrades emerge as top priorities for Air Mobility Command.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Saudi Arabia and India will test the new appeal of the Embraer tanker-transport in a tactical airlift market long monopolized by Lockheed Martin.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Air Force C-32 carrying Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his staff experienced a hard landing during a visit through the Middle East in March 2023.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force flight-related incidents increased in 2023, while Navy and Marine Corps rates stayed steady.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The surge of military aid to Israel and related movement of air defenses to U.S. bases in the Middle East has meant a peak tasking of American airlift.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brandon Patrick
The regional market for medium and heavy military transports is heating up as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states work to modernize their airlift capabilities.
AWIN Knowledge Center