The Air Force is examining a mobile option for the recapitalization of its intercontinental ballistic missile fleet, according to service and industry officials.
The Air Force has not identified the root cause of a starter-generator failure that has resulted in the loss of at least 13 of its primary strike remotely piloted aircraft over two years, despite a program office investigation, according to the program's Selected Acquisition Report obtained this week by Inside Defense.
A top official in the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space transportation office said this week the agency is willing to take on responsibility for space traffic management but that a consensus needs to be reached on how that role should take shape and be implemented.
The Air Force will seek funding in its fiscal year 2018 program objective memorandum to help mitigate the service's fighter pilot shortage, a top Air Force budget and planning official said this week.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter will travel to India next week to discuss opportunities to begin co-developing and producing aircraft carriers, jet fighters and jet engines, along with several "exciting new projects."
Although Boeing remains confident in its ability to meet KC-46 contract obligations, the Pentagon's annual selected acquisition report and a Government Accountability Office analysis published this week reveal that several internal milestones have shifted under a new program baseline, and estimates that a full-rate production decision will be delayed six months from September 2017 to March 2018.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has cast a wide net across industry for its Gremlins concept, leveraging expertise from both munitions and unmanned aerial systems for its latest venture into unmanned, swarming vehicles.
The Air Force has incurred $15.4 million in additional costs from Lockheed Martin after construction challenges at the first Space Fence site caused some schedule delays and additional work for the contractor.
The Air Force Research Laboratory this week awarded Boeing a $275 million contract to continue to manage its space observatories at Starfire Optical Range in New Mexico and Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii.
A first-of-its-kind statutory audit of major weapon programs has turned up no cost growth in 2015, which means the Office of the Secretary of Defense will not be imposing a penalty tax on any of the military services as required by law.
The head of the Government Accountability Office told lawmakers Wednesday the Defense Department remains "the main obstacle" responsible for the U.S. government's inability to pass an audit and asked Congress for help in holding DOD accountable.
It is all but inevitable Congress will be unable to return to regular order this year because of an internal GOP fight over spending, putting the federal government on course for another stop-gap spending measure known as a continuing resolution and, potentially, another shutdown, according to former Republican defense committee staffers.
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