The Space Force has selected six commercial space domain awareness companies to support military operations with both steady-state and surge capacity, as part of the service’s new Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve.
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The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin on Oct. 22 announced a framework agreement to buy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the next 10 years. But the deal, touted by the Pentagon as “landmark” and a first of its kind, depends on Congress granting the military authority to enter into such a…
Over a two-week period beginning in late September and culminating in mid-October, a Russian satellite maneuvered dangerously close to a commercial Finnish satellite currently providing intelligence to the Ukrainian military. The apparent provocation has experts wondering why Russia made the move—testing new capabilities, collecting intelligence, or trying to intimidate the…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has directed the Air Force to establish a new Special Tactics Squadron under the Florida Air National Guard, growing a small but elite group of special operators.
At least two KC-135 Stratotankers that were seriously damaged during Operation Epic Fury are still undergoing extensive maintenance depot repairs, the head of Air Force Materiel Command said Oct. 21.
As the Air Force wrestles to solve the logistics of dispersed operations in the vast Indo-Pacific, it’s investing $3.5 million to help develop a new kind of aircraft: a blended-wing body freighter that’s smaller than a C-130 but larger than a Cessna for “sub-tactical” lift.
The head of the Space Force’s largest acquisition organization said the service needs a third spaceport to support medium and heavy launch by 2030—a goal he called “aspirational” even as he stressed the importance of building out the U.S. military’s launch infrastructure.
United States air forces are engaged in combat operations today, and not all the aircraft are modern stealthy platforms like the B-2, F-22, or F-35. The venerable Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon remains the backbone of the U.S. Air Force fighter fleet and will be in service for two more…
Looking to make a quick start on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping “FORTRESS America” program to make every military base in the U.S. more self sufficient, the Pentagon is dialing up its efforts in an area the Air Force has been working for several years: energy resilience and independence.