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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 background unlike that of Trump’s other DOD nominees. And his specialization in space could upend the priorities of a…

T-7 trainer production delayed again as Air Force, Boeing adjust plan

January 17, 2025

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…

Army to competitively develop Next-Gen Command-and-Control prototype

January 17, 2025

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…

Troy Meink: A Leader in the Air Force

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 Force’s space enterprise, serving as a chief technical advisor to the Air Force Research Laboratory and later the deputy…

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…

Denmark flies home more F-35s for patrols to buffer upgrade delays

January 16, 2025

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…

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 suggested alternative paths for the Air Force’s future combat fleet at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event at…

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…

US Army wants spy drones to launch from high-altitude motherships

January 13, 2025

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…

German Navy tests BlueWhale underwater drone for covert ship tracking

January 10, 2025

COLOGNE, Germany — The Germany Navy has tested the BlueWhale underwater drone as a candidate platform for what the sea service envisions as a future fleet of unmanned vessels for combating enemy submarines. The German sea service explicitly envisions an anti-submarine warfare role for the BlueWhale vehicle, made by Israel Aerospace Industries. Officials staged the two-week experiment last month…