BAE Systems’ FAST Labs research and development organisation has signed a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Air Force lacks a transition risk management plan as it prepares to replace the ageing Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system with the Sentinel.
Applied Research Associates (ARA) has been awarded a two-year contract by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armaments Directorate to act as the System Design Agent for a Next Generation Penetrator (NGP) weapon.
The first flight of the US Air Force’s sixth-generation F-47 fighter will happen sooner than many anticipate, according to Boeing’s Phantom Works division.
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has announced progress in the E-4C SAOC aircraft programme being developed for the United States Air Force.
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Christian Von Denes, 621st Contingency Response Group sling load team lead, worked with Navy and Marine Corps partners to complete the first-ever sling load of an F-35B Lightning II airframe on 27 August.
The U.S. Air Force has expedited the integration and testing of the AGR-20F Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II laser-guided rockets on the F-15E Strike Eagle.
According to Defense One, a second B-21 Raider test flight is expected to take place before the end of 2025, with a senior Air Force official stressing the need for progress without imposing rigid deadlines.
For the first time in history, the United States Air Force has chosen a NATO partner nation to provide pilot training, the Italian Air Force announced.
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully demonstrated its Airlift/Tanker Open Mission Systems (ATOMS) solution during Air Mobility Command’s (AMC) Mobility Guardian 2025 exercise in Honolulu.
Donald McPherson, considered the last surviving of 1,297 American World War II flying aces, has died at the age of 103, U.S. aviation history media reported.
The Department of the Air Force has achieved a major development milestone in its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programme, with the YFQ-42A taking its first flight less than two years after the programme began.
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