Boeing reported a $3.3 billion loss in the third quarter of 2022, driven by deepening woes in its defense business, the company announced Oct. 26. Boeing's defense, space, and security sector lost $2.8 billion in cost overruns on fixed-price development contracts.
Lockheed Martin says it is still pitching its LMXT tanker to the Air Force amid a looming requirements announcement for the KC-Y tanker program. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has cast doubt on whether a KC-Y program would field a wholly new aircraft and has ...
A new image from Boeing shows how the B-52H will look after a series of modifications that the Air Force has said are significant enough to warrant re-designating the aircraft as the B-52J or K. The image was rendered from a digital prototyping model and ...
A new Boeing image shows what the B-52 cockpit will look like after upcoming radar, engine and other modifications have been performed. The image shows a far more streamlined and simpler presentation, dominated by new multifunction displays, although the old "steam gauges" have not been ...
Retired Maj. Gen. Kimberly A. Crider moderated a discussion on "Space Warfare" with Bryan “Stu” Eberhardt of Boeing, Shon J. Manasco of Palantir Technologies, and Jim Reynolds of SAIC at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Watch the video or read the transcript.
Brig. Gen. Jason Bartolomei, program executive officer for Weapons, leads a discussion on "Standards and Digital Engineering" with Naveed Hussain of Boeing, Layne Merritt of Elbit Systems of America, and Alan England of L3Harris Technologies at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Watch the video ...
The troubled KC-46 Pegasus tanker faced yet another setback when the Air Force said the new Remote Vision System (RVS) 2.0, which will be used to operate the airplane's refueling boom, will not be available until October 2025. That is a further 19-month delay from ...
The Air Force plans to complete testing of a full-scale blended wing body cargo/tanker aircraft within four years, according to the department’s new Climate Action Plan. The demonstrator could be a prototype for a future operational mobility aircraft or family of aircraft, and the plan ...
Aiming to build a usable system throughout the experimental and prototyping phase of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program led to Raytheon and Northrop Grumman’s win of the program, company officials told reporters. The partners have already invested in production capacity in 14 states, they ...
The Air Force has awarded a pair of contracts to Boeing potentially worth more than $3.1 billion combined for 19 KC-46 tankers—four for Israel—the Pentagon announced Aug. 31. The larger of the two deals is worth roughly $2.2 billion and will go toward KC-46 Production ...
The Air Force propulsion program tasked with producing engines for the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter awarded contracts to a mix of engine makers and aircraft builders Aug. 19, hinting that integration could be a priority in the prototyping process. GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, ...
A new $775 million security package to help Ukraine fight Russia includes 15 ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance that a Pentagon official said “will enable the targeting of the whole host of artillery capabilities that Ukraine has available.” The official said ...