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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 service’s contribution to the Department of Defense’s larger connect-everything-everywhere campaign known as Combined Joint…
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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…
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Timeline on returning Ospreys to flight remains murky, Air Force says

February 15, 2024
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 aircraft. Air Force investigators are continuing to probe the Nov. 29 crash in parallel with a comprehensive review of whether the…
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The new B-52: How the Air Force is prepping to fly century-old bombers

February 14, 2024
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 a crisp, clear morning in January, its five-person aircrew from the 11th Bomb Squadron ran through preflight checks for a…
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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…
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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.
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Air Force unveils command changes, wing plans in bid to outpace China

February 13, 2024
AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force said Monday it will create a new forward-looking capabilities planning command, refocus its training enterprise, and rethink how airmen deploy as part of a set of 24 initiatives designed to reorient the service to outpace China’s military ambitions and prevail in future conflicts. The Air Force and Space Force’s top civilian and uniformed leaders unveiled the…
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