Imagine a commercial airline company whose planes are all approaching the end of their working lives. The ageing of the planes is well known and understood, the need for a replacement obvious. Yet company management spend twenty years bickering and dithering over what replacements to buy, spending b…

NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Airborne Tactical Advantage Company LLC (ATAC) announced today that it has been selected to provide Eglin Air Force Base with adversary air live training under the Combat Air Forces (CAF) Contracted Air Support (CAS) program.

Under the award, worth up to $92 million, ATAC wil…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of India of items and services to extend follow-on support for their fleet of C-130J Super Hercules aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $90 million.

The …

HASLET, Texas — Textron Systems Corporation announced today it has been awarded a contract to support work on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile system. This scope of work is part of a larger award by the U.S. Air Force to prime contractor Northrop Grumman. The GBSD system is desi…

The US fleet is at an important crossroads. Nearly twenty years after the drive for transformation led to costly and problematic programs such as the littoral combat ship (LCS), Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, and Zumwalt-class destroyer, the Navy is again starting work on new ships in every …

PARIS — On Wednesday September 30, 2020, as part of the permanent air security system, a Rafale from Air Base 113 at Saint-Dizier [in NE France] took off on a Quick Reaction Alert in order to intercept a Falcon 50 aircraft which had lost radio contact. During this interception, contact was reestab…