Raytheon this week held a demonstration to display to the Air Force the company's proposed offering for an alternate Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals program contract, a contract for which Raytheon is the only bidder.1244 words

The Air Force has pushed back a meeting that would determine whether the service is ready to move forward with a multibillion-dollar space program that will change the way the Air Force tracks objects in space. 1188 words

The Air Force will not be able to hold onto all of the money it garners from efficiency moves in fiscal year 2013 due to a budget crunch that has the entire Defense Department cutting more than $480 billion over the next 10 years, according to a top service budget official.793 words

House lawmakers, the Air Force and state government officials this week sparred over the potential usefulness and timing of a commission to study the service's overall force structure. 682 words

The Air Force is hoping the Navy will step in and provide a mission for the service's Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in New York. Lt. Gen. Christopher Miller, Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs, said during a July 12 House Armed Services readiness subcommittee hearing on the service's fiscal year 2013 force-structure reduction strategy that the station, which will have its C-130s retired, may get a new Navy capability. "There's an action involving the Navy to bring capability into that installation that will provide some backfill of a sort," he said.98 words

The Air National Guard wants to shift $17 million of fiscal year 2012 contract funding from a remotely piloted aircraft program toward its Eagle Vision systems, which provide the Guard with rapid access to commercial satellite imagery during national disasters and emergencies. 548 words

The Air Force this week released a formal request for proposals for sustainment of the Global Positioning System satellite constellation's ground segment until the next-generation GPS Operational Control Segment is ready in about 2015.586 words

Aeronautical Systems Center officials are aiming to release a request for proposals for the Air Force's Combat Rescue Helicopter program no earlier than late July, and major engine manufacturers are so far being noncommittal about their involvement in CRH until potential prime contractors make up their minds about what airframes to include in their bids.968 words

Northrop Grumman has submitted an engineering change proposal to alter the established configuration baseline and upgrade shipsets associated with a bleed air technical issue found in the re-engining process of the Air Force's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System program, according to a recent report sent to Congress.838 words

Air Force officials this week elaborated on some of the funding requests made by the service in a late June reprogramming action and outlined a nearly half-billion-dollar requirement for depot maintenance funding to cover a wide range of weapon systems.615 words

Air Force officials believe the Expeditionary Combat Support System, a developmental logistics and supply chain management program that is well behind schedule, will be able to contribute to the service's audit readiness effort as long as it is deployed one year prior to the legally mandated 2017 deadline. The service is also still working through the details of restructuring ECSS but intends to place less responsibility on any single contractor than former prime CSC was given.524 words

The Air Force will issue a request for proposals to procure a plug-in electric vehicle fleet in the coming months, according to one of the service's top energy officials.434 words

The Air Force plans to brief industry on the progress it has made developing technologies critical to future munitions designed to strike hard and deeply buried targets, including a rocket-boosted 2,000-pound bomb for the Joint Strike Fighter that is intended to pack the punch of a traditional 5,000-pound bomb.595 words

The Pentagon's advanced research arm intends to award a sole-source contract to Lockheed Martin to provide an initial baseline flight test for a new program designed to develop, mature and test technologies that travel faster than 20 times the speed of sound.901 words

Program managers and defense contractors will gain a better, shared understanding of cost and schedule problems affecting the development of major weapons due to new guidance that went into effect this month, according to a Pentagon official spearheading the effort.331 words

The Pentagon has completed its long-awaited cloud computing strategy, which calls for a four-step phased approach to help the government transition from the "current state of duplicative, cumbersome and costly application silos" to the Defense Department Enterprise Cloud Environment.786 words

Creating more unconventional "skunk works" programs in the defense industrial base, universities and the Defense Department could help reverse the shortage of high-tech experts in cybersecurity and key intelligence fields in DOD's workforce, according to a draft report by the National Academies.603 words