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If the Air Force’s future bomber is going to be based on proven technology, then why won’t it enter the inventory until the mid 2020s? “This is an issue of affordability and fitting this program in with all the other...

An A-10 ground-attack aircraft assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, crashed last week in a field outside Laufeld, Germany, a town north of the city of Wittlich. The latter is southwest of Bonn. The pilot, Lt....

There have been 17,000 scans of the Air Force network this year. Of those, 132 were suspicious events, including 10 new malware signatures, Lt. Gen. Bill Lord, USAF’s chief of warfighting integration, said last week in his address at AFA’s...

The Air Force needs to look at different ways to protect, resource, and design its network so that officials can accelerate the process of adding and utilizing new technology, said Lt. Gen. Bill Lord, chief of warfighting integration in the...

Whose job is it to protect and defend government networks? Sounds like a simple question, but it’s really not, said James Richberg, deputy national intelligence manager for cyber in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In fact, the...

F-22s using the communications gateway known as the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node resident on some RQ-4 Block 20 aircraft are able to pass data to other aircraft types in flight, said Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz on Capitol Hill...

Boeing’s KC-46A tanker will use Pratt & Whitney’s PW4062 engines, already flying on commercial Boeing 767s and Airbus A300s, and about to fly on Boeing 747s, according to Warren Boley, Pratt’s president of military engines. Pratt was on Boeing’s winning...

Pratt & Whitney, maker of many of the rocket engines used for US space launch vehicles, will begin laying off workers “in four to eight months” unless it has some solid direction from the government about the nation’s future space...

The first of four C-130s slated for the Alaska Air National Guard’s 144th Airlift Squadron has arrived at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Dictated by 2005 BRAC, the four former Tennessee ANG transports will grow the 144th AS from eight aircraft to...

The Air Force has awarded Goodrich a contract for a pair of upgraded multi-spectral payloads for U-2 surveillance aircraft to enhance their all-weather imaging capability. Produced by Goodrich, these Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance Sensors will equip U-2s of the 9th...

Hoping to capture its wartime heritage for posterity, the Civil Air Patrol is searching for World War II-era members to record their memories of defending US coastlines from the German U-boat threat. “Not only do we want to preserve the...