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Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop are the finalists in the hunt to replace the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), the Air Force announced Aug. 7. Boeing received a $9.95-million contract; while Lockheed Martin received $11.5 million and...

The Air Force went for diversity in its three choices as finalists in the competition to recapitalize the E-8C JSTARS fleet. The Air Force broadly indicated it wanted the airplane to be based on a “business jet,” which a spokesman...

A US Air Force F-35A completed the first successful air-to-air refueling operation from an international tanker recently, joining up and refueling from an Italian Air Force KC-767A flying over California for boom receiver certification tests, Lockheed Martin officials confirmed August...

American and coalition aircraft have launched 5,900 air strikes since Operation Inherent Resolve began last year, and the air strikes “are the most precise in the history of warfare,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., commander of the...

The Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin a $431.4-million contract modification to the Lot 9 F-35 advance acquisition contract, for the program to acquire “production nonrecurring items,” including specialized tooling and test equipment, which are “critical to meeting current...

Twelve A-10s and about 300 airmen returned home to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., this past week, marking the end of the first theater security package mission deployed to US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa. The TSP mission, in...

The remains of an airman missing since World War II have been found in Germany and will be returned to his family for a military burial, the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week. US Army Air Forces...

The US must ramp up efforts against ISIS or risk greater risk in the future, according to a new report from the Center for a New American Security. “To date, the counter-Islamic State strategy in Iraq has lacked the urgency...

A Northrop Grumman Corporation-designed virtual and constructive training suite saw extensive use during the recent Exercise Northern Edge 2015, held in Alaska, the company announced August 7, helping mark several milestones in the development of capable virtual training systems able...