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SecAF: Don’t Expect Large Budget Increases After 2019; $2.4B Set For Light...
The Air Force placed a $2.4 billion placeholder in the 2019 budget to buy Light Attack Aircraft over the next five years, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters this morning.
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Up the Buy ASAP: Fixing American Airpower
Double the buy rate on F-35A starting in 2020 and plan on a minimum of 200 B-21 bombers built in rapid fashion. That will begin to get to the Air Force that America needs to meets the challenges of the...
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Navy Looking To Fly P-8s From Cold War-era Base In Alaska
WASHINGTON: The Navy may begin deploying submarine-hunting P-8 Poseidon aircraft to a small airstrip hundreds of miles off the Alaskan coast, signaling a new emphasis on keeping watch over Russian and...
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Hold Joint Armed Services-Foreign Relations Defense Hearings
The best way for America to develop a consensus on what our defense and global security commitments should be is for Congress to have a lengthy series of posture hearings that delve deeply into these...
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Mitchell Weighs In: More F-35s or New, Old F-15s?
Fifth gen or fourth gen? F-35A or F-15X. Stealth, sensors and fusion or lots of missiles? Lockheed or Boeing? See what the Mitchell Institute says.
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Red Flag 2019: First Great Power Air War Test In Years
How are Air Force pilots training for a war with Russia or China?
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US Air Power: The Imperative For Modernization (Buy The F-35)
In 2006, a relatively obscure book caused a major stir among the U.S. Air Force leadership. Why Air Forces Fail, edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, lays out the determinants of failure:...
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809 Panel Calls for Managing ‘Capabilities,’ Not Weapons
The Department of Defense can make smarter and faster acquisition decisions if it uses people more thoughtfully. Instead of involving top-level leaders at every decision point in the acquisition...
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Trump Threatens NDAA Veto If House Cuts Stand
The Trump Administration argues the HASC’s cuts to the defense policy bill would hamper missile detection and defense priorities.
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US, Allies Getting Larger Airborne Network With New JTRS Radios
The software defined radios will make F/A-18E/F and F-22 aircraft communications nodes in a coalition network.
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F-35 To F-22: Can We Talk? Finally, The Answer Is Yes
Next month, the Air Force will start rapid-fire field tests of new network tech, including a long-delayed secure datalink between its two stealth fighters.
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Multi Domain Drives NATO Industry To Craft New Air Power Interoperability
The industry study is designed to help NATO “better prepare and operate within a multi-domain environment.”
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‘Sizable Dollars’ For ABMS Likely in 2021 Request: Roper
Roper says he hopes Congress “will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of ‘Platform Land’ and actually putting money towards digital transformation.”
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First Multi Domain C2 Exercise Planned: ‘ABMS Onramp’
The Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.
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Air Force Needs Fleet Able To Fight 2 Major Wars: CSBA
“Creating a more range-balanced, survivable, and lethal force will require a commitment by DoD and the Congress to significantly increase the Air Force’s annual budgets,” CSBA says.
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Valkyrie Back In The Air With Successful Flight Test
The Valkyrie is the only drone to have flown with the Skyborg AI wingman package — but the Air Force isn’t ruling out the eventual use of another drone.
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B-1B Flies Dark Close To Russia, Over Kurils; China Announces Defense Budget
“This B-1 left from home base, got a great training mission, and showed its capability for a 29-hour round-trip into the super-busy airspace around Japan where Chinese and Russian fighters routinely...
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Air Force Slates Potential $950M For ABMS Tech From 28 Vendors
“Regardless, it is light years faster than starting from scratch each time,” Bill Greenwalt said of the IDIQ contracts.
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A-10: Hey Air Force, There’s More to Survival than Hiding
Anyone who’s been around ground combat knows F-35s, F-22s and legacy fast jets are far too fast and lack the close in maneuverability to be able detect camouflaged threats to our troops or to separate...
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Dunlap Unveils First ‘Global’ ABMS Exercise
The F-35, the F-22, “even a KC-46 tanker” and ground assets will be able to share data in fiscal 2022, Dunlap says. Later in the year, the Air Force will take a KC-46 tanker, and put that same...
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