DENVER, Colo. — The Air Force’s desired adaptations to Boeing’s E-7A battlefield management aircraft are proving to be harder than expected and complicating price negotiations, top service officials said Tuesday.
“We’re having a hard time with [the E-7 program], getting price agreement with Boeing,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in a roundtable at the Air and Space…
More Navy ships get Overmatch networking following Carl Vinson tests
February 16, 2024
SAN DIEGO — Project Overmatch networking capabilities have been upgraded and rolled out to an additional number of U.S. Navy ships following testing last year with the Carl Vinson carrier strike group, according to Rear Adm. Doug Small.
Project Overmatch represents the…
Navy selects principal cyber advisor to replace St. Pierre
February 16, 2024
SAN DIEGO — U.S. Navy officials said the service’s next principal cyber advisor would be in place in the coming weeks, while declining to divulge exactly who would soon be taking the digital reins.
The PCA is charged with instituting Department of Defense mandates as…
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy is incorporating lessons learned from its Red Sea engagements with Houthi missiles and drones, and are using them to improve tactics for seeing and eliminating threats, service leaders said Tuesday.
Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, said U.S. ships in the Red Sea are sending data about their engagements with Houthi threats back to the…
AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force still isn’t sure when it might resume flying the CV-22 Osprey, more than two months after an Osprey crash that killed eight special operations airmen off the coast of Japan spurred the U.S. military to ground hundreds of the tiltrotor…
Airborne Triton drone key to Navy’s signal goals, Clapperton says
February 15, 2024
SAN DIEGO — A Northrop Grumman unmanned aircraft system is indispensable to the U.S. Navy’s future ability to monitor actions around the world, share insights about them and respond accordingly, a service leader said.
The autonomous MQ-4C Triton intelligence…
Defense industry analysts said it has long been clear the Army needed to end its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program.
Indeed, concerns about the program came before the war in Ukraine and as drones became commonplace on battlefields throughout the world.
And so when the service announced last week it would cancel its multibillion-dollar scout helicopter program, just weeks before the…
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — As it idled on the flight line here, a B-52H Stratofortress known as the Red Gremlin II looked much the same as it did in the 1960s.
But the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 bomber fleet is showing its age, and the Red Gremlin II is no exception.
On…
Gallery: Take a flight in the US Air Force’s B-52 bomber
February 14, 2024
B-52 Stratofortress pilots control six-decade-old hardware with a 185-foot wingspan — and the lives of the four or five airmen onboard. But the moment the Vietnam War-era bomber’s wheels leave the ground, anything can happen — and some of the most important lessons…
RTX to supply 600 Coyote drone interceptors to Army
February 13, 2024
The U.S. Army is buying hundreds of drone-killing Coyote interceptors from defense contractor RTX to fortify its ability to counter unmanned aerial systems.
The service agreed to pay $75 million for 600 of the ground-launched, radar-guided Coyote 2C devices, it said Feb. 9.
The effort was led by its Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space, tasked with developing overhead defenses…
