Boeing EA-18G

By Steve Trimble
Top Navy officials remain confident in the affordability and design requirements for the F/A-XX as Air Force leaders consider their own next-generation fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
To cut mishaps by half, the service is focusing on ground-handling incidents that damage aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Aerial searches continued throughout the night but responders are dealing with mountainous terrain, cloudy weather and low visibility.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Navy has missed a goal to declare initial operational capability for the Next-Generation Jammer’s mid-band system in the fiscal year just ended.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
AFRL’s Global Lightning prototyping effort began in 2018.
Satellites

By Brian Everstine
The service hopes to progress on F/A-18, T-45 and MH-60 replacements, though ship- and submarine-building requirements are likely to take priority.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Boeing officials think the successor of the Boeing EA-18G Growler could be the F-15EX Eagle II.
Farnborough Airshow

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Navy aims to declare initial operational capability for the Next-Generation Jammer’s mid-band system before the end of September after multiple delays.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International says it is buying the U.S.-based radar and electronic-warfare businesses of the former Cobham company for around $1.9 billion.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
This marks the second extension of the Air Combat and Electronic Attack Sustainment contract, which initially came into effect in July 2016.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Fifteen years after a B-52 standoff jammers idea was shelved, the venerable bomber will audition for a role as a primary airborne electronic attack platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has filed two pre-award protests against the Dual Band Decoy program since May 12 with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The ALQ-249 replaces one of the three ALQ-99 tactical jamming system pods now used by the EA-18G.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Australia can buy up to 63 Northrop Grumman-built, long-range anti-radiation missiles worth up to $506 million, the U.S. government announced on Feb. 27.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Red Flag, the service’s most important combat training event, shifts to overwater for the first time in its 48-year history.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The planned sole-source contract will be a cost plus fixed fee delivery order, beginning with a 31-month-long Phase 1 of the spiral upgrade.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The AIR5349 Phase 6 Project aims to “ensure commonality” between Australia's EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft and the U.S. Navy’s Growler fleet.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
All deliveries from the sole-source contract are expected to be completed within two years of the award of an $87 million, sole-source contract.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Sweden is proposing to replace Finland’s F/A-18 Hornets on a virtual one-for-one basis by offering 64 Gripen fighters for Helsinki’s €9 billion ($10.9 billion) HX fighter requirement.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Bradley Perrett, Matthew Jouppi
Australia will consider the Block 2 upgrade of the Boeing EA-18G Growler as part of a regular program of keeping aircraft common with those of the U.S. Navy, the defense department in Canberra said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Super Hornet is the last of the five Western types participating in the trials.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A key piece of the EA-18G’s first major upgrade since the airborne electronic attack aircraft entered service a decade ago is now under contract
Defense