The Department of the Navy, which includes the Navy and the Marine Corps, currently has an aviation fleet of about 4,000 aircraft. The average budgets for procuring aircraft were about 60 percent greater from 2010 through 2019 ($14 billion) than they were from 2000 through 2009 ($9 billion).

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GETAFE, Spain — Airbus has formally delivered the first of eight Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft ordered by the NATO Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) after a ceremony held at the Airbus Getafe site in Spain.

The official acceptance of this first aircraft marks a decisive …

According to Taiwan media reports, military aircraft of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) appeared once more over Taiwan on June 26. Since the US transport aircraft flew over Taiwan on June 9, raising the level of provocation, PLA military aircraft have entered Taiwan’s southwestern “airspa…

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $936,032,309 fixed-price-incentive-firm-target modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-2307 to exercise the fiscal 2020 option for the construction of a USS Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class ship (DDG 135).

This modification…

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $360,800,000 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract modification (P00038) to previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract N00019-17-C-0001.

This modification provides for the procurement of fou…

PARIS — Belgium’s recently-announced 40% cut in NH90 helicopter flight hours is not due to the excessive cost of the Airbus A400M, Airbus A330 MRTT or Lockheed F-35 aircraft coming online, but to Belgian Air Force staffing shortfalls made worse by deficient support by its manufacturer, according t…