The Navy announced Monday it will name a pair of future vessels after two previous commanders in chief.
During a private White House ceremony Jan. 3, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro introduced two future Gerald R. Ford-class of aircraft carriers that will bear the names USS William J. Clinton and USS George W. Bush, after the 42nd and 43rd U.S. presidents.
“Their legacies will endure…
How Trump’s Air Force pick could elevate space priorities
January 21, 2025
Among the resumes of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for key Pentagon posts, aspiring Air Force secretary Troy Meink’s stands out.
As a Defense Department insider with deep acquisition and technology-development experience, Meink would bring to the job a government…
The Air Force is further delaying the production contract for its newest trainer aircraft, the T-7 Red Hawk, and will expand its testing in a major reorganization of the program’s acquisition strategy.
The service originally planned to award Boeing a contract to build the…
After spending a year working on pilot programs for a future battlefield command-and-control capability, the U.S. Army is on the brink of starting an effort to competitively prototype a next-generation system, according to the service’s program office in charge of the activity.
Next-Generation Command-and-Control, or NGCC2, as the Army calls it, represents a new approach to providing commanders…
Trump picks intel community official as next Air Force secretary
January 17, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he’s tapping Troy Meink, second in command at the National Reconnaissance Office, to be secretary of the Air Force.
Meink began his career as a KC-135 tanker navigator in 1988. He went on to hold a variety of roles across the Air…
Raytheon aims to boost SM-3 missile production rates
January 16, 2025
Raytheon is investing in its Standard Missile 3 lines to accelerate the production rate of the U.S. Navy weapon, as global interest in procuring the capability expands amid successful intercepts against ballistic missile attacks in the Middle East.
Raytheon produces both the…
PARIS — Denmark repatriated three more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters it had been using for pilot training in the U.S., finalizing a workaround to delivery delays by Lockheed Martin, after the Nordic country already flew home four aircraft in an older configuration in December.
The jets landed at Denmark’s Skrydstrup Air Base on Sunday after a trans-Atlantic flight from Luke Air Force Base in…
Kendall floats F-35 successor, casts 2050 vision for Air Force
January 16, 2025
The Air Force under a Trump administration could choose to pursue a more advanced successor to the F-35 successor instead of the costly Next Generation Air Dominance platform to maintain air superiority, outgoing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Monday.
Kendall…
Drone sightings lead to airspace shutdown at Ohio military base
January 13, 2025
BOSTON — More suspected drone sightings in the eastern U.S. led to a temporary airspace shutdown at an Air Force base in Ohio and arrests near Boston’s Logan International Airport, as elected officials increased their push for action to identify and stop the mysterious…
The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, according to a request for information posted to the federal business opportunities portal Sam.gov.
The Special Electronic Mission Aircraft Product Directorate, part of the Army’s Fixed-Wing aircraft Project…
