The Defense Department’s newest selected acquisition report, released late Thursday, includes four critical or significant Nunn-McCurdy breaches, including the Air Force’s Airborne Warning and Control System Block 40/45 upgrade. The AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade program acquisition unit cost increased 22.5...
The Pentagon’s official cost scorecard—the just-released selected acquisition report for calendar 2013—show that the F-35’s procurement costs are up but life-cycle costs are down, adding up to a net reduction in program costs. Stated in base year 2012 (when the...
Industry representatives interested in building or equipping the Air Force’s next generation JSTARS gathered at Hanscom AFB, Mass., with their factory-fresh business jets for an industry day earlier this month. “The purpose of the event was to open a dialogue...
Flight testing of the B-1B Lancer’s modernized cockpit software kicked off at Edwards AFB, Calif., at the beginning of this month. The Sustainment Block 16A software package fully enables the Lancer’s recently added glass cockpit and Link 16 data sharing...
The F-35 strike fighter will make its international debut in Britain this summer at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in July, according to the Royal Air Force. “It is entirely fitting that the F-35’s first stop outside...
Textron AirLand’s Scorpion light attack, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance aircraft has completed 50 flight hours since flight testing began in December 2013, states a release from the firm. Recent tests garnered a raft of data on the airframe’s performance at various...
F-22 Raptors and F-15 Eagles based at Kadena AB, Japan, trained on defense counter-air and multi-lateral integration operations with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force earlier this month. It was the first time such training was conducted since the F-22s arrived...
The aerospace firm ATK announced a $178 million deal on Wednesday for composite components of Atlas V and Delta IV rockets utilized by the Air Force for launch activities. The initial contract includes deliveries of composite structures beginning this fiscal...
Researchers at the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, are developing sensors to analyze a person’s “physical and cognitive performance” by measuring electrolytes from the person’s sweat, announced Air Force officials. The Band-Aid-like sensors will be used as...