Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires that DOD is not moving quickly enough with a new bomber program. He worries that unless the Air Force can get the effort out of the conceptual stage soon, there will be no way to meet the 2020 deadline imposed by the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review. (Read our review of the options under study here.)
There is a new entrant in the highly competitive field of collaborative combat aircraft—semi-autonomous drones meant to fly alongside manned combat aircraft. Northrop Grumman unveiled its new Project Talon aircraft to a small group of reporters at the facilities of its subsidiary Scaled Composites.
