A possible contender to arm USAF’s next generation bomber has fired its scramjet engine for the first and completed a critical design review, according to a Boeing release. Air Force Research Lab’s Propulsion Directorate manages the X-51A WaveRider Scramjet Engine Demonstrator program for a consortium comprising USAF, DARPA, NASA, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The goal is to demonstrate hypersonic technology that Boeing’s Advanced Systems president, George Muellner, says could be used to deliver payloads to space as well as other atmospheric flight applications. He said earlier this year that it might well be adapted for the NGB.
Senator to DOD: Redo Study on Suicide by Job Specialty
Sept. 26, 2024
About two months after the Pentagon released a congressionally mandated study on military suicide rates broken down by career field, the senator who led the charge for the study is telling Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III that the released data falls short of what was required by the law.