In the fall of 2018, Boeing’s defense business was flying high. The company had just won three major Pentagon contests that were expected to bring in tens of millions of dollars over the next decade and beyond. That had followed a high-profile deal to build two new Air Force One jets, and while the …

On March 11, 2021, the U.S. Air Force took delivery of its first F-15EX Eagle II fighter. The original Eagle II program was intended to deliver 144 aircraft to replace aging F-15Cs, most of which are in the Air National Guard; however, the FY2023 President’s budget request adjusts the intention of p…

EGLIN AFB, Fla. — Eglin’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats in the Gulf of Mexico April 28, 2022.

This was proven when an 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron F-15E Strike Eagle released a modified GBU-31 joint direct attack m…

BATS is the French-German Binational Air Transport C-130J Squadron “Rhein/Rhin”, stationed at the air base 105 in Evreux (France) and operating, ultimately, a fleet of ten “Lockheed Martin C-130J-30/(K)C-130J Super Hercules” aircraft. When fully operational, the ten assets are expected to provide up…

Angara-1.2 light-class launch vehicle carrying a spacecraft for the Russian Defence Ministry was successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region by the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

The start of the launch vehicle and the launch of the spacecraft into …

As part of the nation’s effort to sustain the microelectronics manufacturing capability necessary for national and economic security, and in support of Executive Order 14017, America’s Supply Chains, the Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a $117 million agreement to GlobalFoundries (GF).

GF…