Boeing’s board of directors has named Robert “Kelly” Ortberg, the new chief executive officer of the embattled aerospace giant, the company announced July 31. Since early this year, the company has suffered a rash of accidents and high-visibility quality problems. Meanwhile, losses continue to pile ...
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The Air Force will "pause" the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program while it evaluates whether it meets the Air Force’s needs and budgetary requirements, Secretary Frank Kendall said July 30. The advanced fighter was originally supposed to enter service around 2030.
The two contractors picked for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft Increment 1 may not get half the work, but could get a much larger or smaller share, Air Force officials said at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference.
The Airmen who specialize in weather are much more than just a weather app; properly employed, they can help commanders predict and influence adversary behavior.
Leaders seem to be hedging, with senior service leaders indicating concern over NGAD’s costs and raising questions about the future of U.S. air dominance.
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Project Magellan is the latest maximum endurance operation (MEO), the term for long-haul missions, meant to test Airmen as transport and tanker crews under Air Mobility Command.
Today threats in space are significant. Increasingly, U.S. space capabilities are contested, as Russia and China pursue threatening capabilities to challenge what was once U.S. dominance and have become near parity.
The Air Force achieved a milestone in May by testing out a new system for controlling high volumes of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) in military airspace.