U.S. Navy

By Brian Everstine
A nonpublic investigation into the recent crash highlights an increasing disconnect between the U.S. Air Force and Navy program offices.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command announced the award Sept. 10.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Air Force and U.S. Navy have fielded the latest version of the missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The head of the U.S. Air Force wants Congress to expand a newly approved authority to start acquisition programs ahead of authorization from lawmakers.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
Founded in 1978, California-based Aero Turbine has a customer portfolio that includes the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The installation of the unmanned air warfare center (UAWC) features the MD-5E ground control station.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Guy Norris
The flight, which Stratolaunch has scheduled toward the end of the third quarter, is expected to round out a two-year test campaign.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The SDA’s Warfighter Integration Cell conducted a series of Link-16 tests over a two-day period.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Senate appropriators are seeking to reverse some of the Pentagon’s proposed development cutbacks as part of an $852.2 billion fiscal 2025 defense spending bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Industry is expecting the U.S. Navy to select its Next Generation Fighter next year despite ongoing budget uncertainty, a competitor says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
This was the first time RAN fired the NSM since it acquired the missile in January 2023.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Naval Air Systems Command published a request for information for the CAMS weapon system, seeking a missile in the same class as the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Navy plans to buy active expendable BriteCloud decoys from Leonardo to improve the self-protection equipment of the F-35.
GASCC & RIAT

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy this week disclosed that a T-45C Goshawk experienced another engine malfunction, prompting an emergency landing on July 10.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Senate authorizers want to take almost all of the remaining funding away from the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for its next-generation F/A-XX fighter.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Acquisition and budget documents point to the quiet emergence of a third capability: signals intelligence.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
As fixed-price deals signed years ago continue to burden balance sheets, Boeing Defense and Space is focusing on smart growth opportunities.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
GE Aerospace now boasts a validated propulsion design that will compete for use in a future class of hypersonic missiles and reusable vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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 Steve Trimble
A cannon-fired, off-board-guided, hypervelocity projectile could become a new, low-cost layer of the U.S. Army’s defenses against air and missile threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
China’s military has released an image of a Xian H-6K bomber carrying up to four air-launched ballistic missiles, doubling its previously acknowledged capacity.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Corps’ notorious Force Design 2030 plan, first released in 2021, reshaped the service through major steps such as a famous decision to get rid of tanks.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The service released another request for information for the Undergraduate Jet Training System on June 26.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Chen Chuanren
Japan is studying a new class of air defense destroyer.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Boeing executives harbor little hope for extending F/A-18E/F production beyond the last scheduled delivery to the U.S. Navy in 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion