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The F-35 is beating the stealthiness expected of it “at maturity,” said Lorraine Martin, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program manager. Officials must still verify this claim “with more data,” she told reporters on June 9 during a company-sponsored media day in...

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved its version of the Fiscal 2015 defense spending bill. The legislation provides $491 billion in discretionary funding, some $200 million more than President Obama’s request, and $79.4 billion for the Pentagon’s overseas war...

The Air Force’s notional MQ-X remotely piloted aircraft, the stealthy, modular successor to the MQ-9 Reaper, is in a holding pattern for now, Lt. Gen Bob Otto, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, told Air Force Magazine....

The Air Force needs to get better at measuring effect versus performance, said Lt. Gen. Bob Otto, who oversees intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance matters on the Air Staff. He said he recently returned from Afghanistan a bit “disappointed” with where...

President Obama nominated Maj. Gen. William Bender for promotion to the rank of lieutenant general for assignment as the Air Force’s chief of information dominance and chief information officer, announced the Pentagon on June 10. Bender has been deputy chief...

The Defense Department is investigating whether munitions released from a friendly aircraft took the lives of five US troops in southern Afghanistan on June 9, said Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby on Tuesday. “We do have reason to...

The Air Force is injecting Active Duty personnel into the Oregon Air National Guard-run F-15C schoolhouse at Kingsley Field starting this fall to increase Eagle pilot production, announced officials. With the standup of the new active association, the ANG’s 173rd...

Lockheed Martin delivered another C-130J Super Hercules transport to Little Rock AFB, Ark., from its production facility in Marietta, Ga., announced, the company. This airplane, serial number 5748, is the sixth of nine new-build C-130Js scheduled to join Little Rock’s...

Three F-35B aircraft—two Marine Corps and one British—will deploy to the Farnborough Airshow outside London and the preceding Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire, England, in July, said Lockheed Martin F-35 Vice President Lorraine Martin. This marks the first time...

The Defense Logistics Agency recently ended its US Embassy support mission in Iraq, more than two years after US military forces departed the nation at the end of 2011. DLA oversaw the demilitarization and disposal of US equipment and fuel...