Boeing C-17

By Steve Trimble
Space rockets and Boeing C-17-sized wing-in-ground effect vehicles rank among candidates attempting to solve one of the U.S. military's toughest problems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Protesters broke into the UK Royal Air Force’s main air transport base and sprayed red paint on two of the service’s Airbus A330 Voyager tankers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The USAF's Air Mobility Command is calling on industry to take some initial steps to fill newly defined gaps in its aeromedical evacuation.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Sean Broderick
A powder metal part-contamination problem affects hundreds of Pratt & Whitney PW2000 engines on Boeing 757s and C-17s that will require inspections.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
Advances in fighters, airlifters and refuelers are necessary for the U.S. military to compete with the Chinese Air Force, says the head of Indo-Pacific Command.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
The late-February request from the Air Force reflects a broader strategy to use government funds to seed investments in future commercial products.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The CMMT leverages Lockheed Martin’s Rapid Dragon palletized munitions platform concept.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
The Boeing-owned company received a nearly $25 million award from DARPA on Feb. 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Airbus finds itself in this position because the A400M backlog is dwindling.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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