The Air Force has quietly launched a competition for the rights to install more than 140 Boeing-built cockpit-upgrade kits in the service's legacy C-130 Hercules aircraft, according to internal Pentagon documents reviewed by Inside the Air Force.
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The Defense
Business Board is recommending Defense Secretary Robert Gates eliminate U.S.
Joint Forces Command and the Pentagon's networking directorate, merge the Joint
Staff with Gates' office and implement a hiring freeze.878 words
The Air Force has updated the way it develops operational capability requirements, releasing a new guidance that takes into account policy changes and a number of reforms to implement in the service's weapon buying shop, according to Pentagon documents.
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The Air Force plans to slash simulation funding as the Pentagon's budgets get increasingly tighter, much to the chagrin of one lawmaker who claims the technology is critical to performing military tasks.
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The Air Force is expected to wrap-up a
study that will influence fiscal year 2012 funding options for service programs
designed to track ground-based moving targets, Inside the Air Force has learned. The study by the Analysis, Assessments and Lessons Learned
directorate (A9) is exploring ground moving target indicator options. The group
is expected to brief Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz next month.
At the same time, Air Combat Command is conducting a broad, overarching
analysis of alternatives that is slated to wrap-up next year.91 words
Four key
Pentagon officials warned Congress this week that failing to pass a $33 billion
supplemental defense budget before the scheduled August recess would result in
civilian furloughs and create a financial emergency for the military.385 words
As the Pentagon's budget begins to flatten, multiservice joint programs could translate into savings in some areas, but are not the be-all, end-all solution for cutting costs, the Air Force's top programmer said this week.
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The European Union on July 21 notified the World Trade Organization that it is appealing virtually every aspect of the June 30 WTO panel finding that EU member states provided subsidies to Airbus.
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The Pentagon has yet to deliver a report to a key Senate panel detailing the engineering and sensitive system modifications needed to produce an exportable version of the Lockheed Martin-built F-22A Raptor, Inside the Air Force has learned.
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The start of kit procurement for the F-15 Avionics Replacement modification program has been pushed back to fiscal year 2011 because of development delays, according to Pentagon budget documents and an Air Force official.
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Air Force officials delayed the Atlas V-propelled launch of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite for 10 days after a newly designed separation nut failed testing, according to a service spokeswoman.
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The two new satellites that were added to the Wideband Global SATCOM program will have the same contract structure and system design as some of the other satellites already in the system, according to an Air Force spokeswoman.
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An ongoing
Defense Department effort is focused on bringing ground stations that control
unmanned drones more in line with that iPhone resting in your pocket.1022 words
A proposal by
the Pentagon's special operations shop to stand up a new irregular warfare
office faces an uncertain fate given potential personnel changes and the
Defense Department's big push to cut overhead, according to sources tracking
the effort.672 words
Army Gen.
Raymond Odierno, the incoming chief of U.S. Joint Forces Command, said this
week that issues surrounding the use of intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance systems during counterinsurgency operations are high on his
agenda as the general in charge of advancing new warfighting concepts and joint
training efforts.381 words
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