The Defense Department is closer to its targeted procurement efficiency, but more acquisition programs will face the axe in Fiscal 2013, according to Pentagon acquisition chief Ash Carter. “There will undoubtedly be more cancellations,” stated Carter during a speech Wednesday...
The Defense Department isn’t eager to cancel weapon systems in upcoming budget cuts, but will, said Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s No. 2 acquisition executive, Wednesday. He told defense writers in Washington, D.C., that canceling a program, especially when it’s reached...
The Defense Department has “gotten a little complacent” about electronic warfare since the 1990s, Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s deputy acquisition chief, told reporters Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Kendall said he was involved in EW 20 years ago when DOD officials...
Don’t expect directed energy weapons to suddenly transform America’s way of war anytime soon, said Frank Kendall, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. “Directed energy is one of those technologies that’s always five years away, no...
The State Department announced Wednesday that the United States has completed its 1,000th aerial supply mission into Afghanistan that transited Russian airspace. Those flights have brought “more than 150,000 personnel” into Afghanistan in support of international efforts there, according to...
The Air Force is significantly upgrading its four B-1 Lancer simulators with new displays, improved projectors, and a modernized scenery database. The $18.4 million refresh of the 1990s-era weapon system trainers at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., and Dyess AFB, Tex., will...
The 4th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., has decommissioned the Satellite Mission Control Subsystem and Air Force Command Post Terminal. Airmen had used these command and control elements to operate the nation’s Milstar military communications satellites for the...
Airmen with the Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Fighter Wing in Springfield are upgrading the radios in 160 Air Guard F-16 Block 30 airplanes so that the pilots of these Vipers will have the connectivity to communicate beyond line of...
The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it had identified the remains of TSgt. James G. Maynard, an airman who had been missing in action since World War II. Maynard, of Ellenwood, Ga., will be buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery....
The Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, capable of detecting targets buried, concealed, or concealed under foliage, finished flight testing on an MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft, announced Lockheed Martin, the radar’s maker. Before the MQ-9 trials, testers flew 100 sorties with...
