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01/16/2025

The timeline to get the factory up and running is ambitious, as Anduril plans to have the first products rolling out the door by mid-2026.

Anduril Industries will establish its "Arsenal" factory near Columbus, Ohio, planning to bring some 4,000 jobs to the area.

01/16/2025

The Navy has moved some of its strategic deterrent capabilities to separate accounts, trying to relieve financial pressure on its day-to-day investment and operating accounts, but Kendall doesn’t see that as a long-term solution, for either the Navy or the Air Force.

A separate Pentagon budget for the Sentinel ICBM wouldn't free up any money for other Air Force priorities, Secretary Frank Kendall said.

01/15/2025

Much of the hearing was marked by partisan clashes about whether the former Fox News host and Army National Guard officer is qualified to serve as the head of a sprawling department that spends more than $830 billion a year and controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Pete Hegseth vowed to involve himself in the future of the Air Force during a hearing on Jan. 14 on his nomination as Secretary of Defense.

01/15/2025

His father flew in World War I and his older brother was a pilot with United Airlines, so when Hamilton joined the U.S. Army Air Forces on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, his goal was to fly.

Lt. Col. David Hamilton, a C-47 pilot who flew pathfinding paratroopers into France during the 1944 D-Day invasion, died Jan. 5 at 102.

01/15/2025

While China’s military has built hundreds of hardened shelters in the past decade or so to protect its air force on the ground in the Western Pacific theater, the U.S. has built only a handful.

Airpower scholars are warning a lack of hardened aircraft shelters at U.S. Air Force bases could incentivize a surprise attack by China.

01/15/2025

“The [Honor Guard] is about 17 months old and we are faced with two of the largest ceremonies possible, a state funeral and presidential inauguration, all within a 20-day window."

The Space Force Honor Guard supported its first state funeral and will participate in its first ever presidential inauguration in January.

01/14/2025

The F-35s join other F-35 Lightnings already at Kadena, as well as air superiority F-22 Raptors and multirole F-16 Fighting Falcons.

F-35 Lightning II fighters from the Vermont Air National Guard deployed to Kadena Air Base, Japan, a key U.S. outpost in the Pacific, Jan. 13

01/14/2025

Kendall also said he expects that the missions of the Air Force and Space Force “don’t fundamentally change, but both services need to go through a transformation.”

Departing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall shared his forecast of what the 2050 Air Force will look like, including the Space Force.

01/14/2025

Hicks emphasized the bipartisan consensus that the People’s Republic of China and and its ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region are the top strategic concerns for the U.S. Under the Biden administration, she said, the Pentagon focused on “driving changes needed to outpace the PRC and ensure our enduring military advantage.”

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks described lessons from strategic competition with China before her departure from the Pentagon.

01/14/2025

New policies and standards will also cover other topics besides appearance. The main objective is to ensure rules and regulations are clear and not subject to interpretation or “selective enforcement,” Allvin said.

The Air Force plans to update its standards and more strictly enforce existing regulations, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.

01/13/2025

For the warfighter, validating the technology behind SDA’s “mesh network” is crucial to ensuring sensors and shooters around the globe can transmit data in seconds—a particularly important task for SDA’s mission of missile warning and tracking.

On Jan. 9, the National Reconnaissance Office launched more small satellites and the Space Development Agency established a laser comms link.

01/13/2025

In addition to the C-130s, the National Guard said Jan. 10 more than 880 Army and Air Guard members had mobilized, including helicopter crews, military police, and hand crews to work alongside local police and firefighters.

Eight Air Force firefighting C-130s will fly to southern California this weekend to help fight the wildfires scorching Los Angeles.

01/13/2025

The new Congress has wide-ranging implications for the Air Force and Space Force, as committee and subcommittee chairs hold great sway over policy and spending issues affecting the services.

As the 119th Congress gets going, here are the key new players for the Air Force and Space Force in the Senate and House.

01/13/2025

Kendall said drastically shortening the acquisition time of modern weapons is probably unrealistic, but that selective stockpiling of long-lead parts and materials could help position the nation for wartime surge production.

Faster B-21 bomber production "makes sense" if costs can be kept down, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said.

01/10/2025

EPAWSS is the technology that turns the F-15EX into what some have called a generation 4.5 fighter, positioning it between conventional fourth-gen F-15s and fifth-gen F-22s and F-35s.

The Air Force has cleared a new F-15 electronic warfare system for full-rate production and awarded a $615.8 million contract to Boeing.

01/09/2025

“Eglin authorities are cleaning up the area and taking measures needed to ensure the fuel tank is safely removed."

No injuries were reported after an F-16 external fuel tank fell off into a neighborhood outside Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. on Jan. 7.

$For the first increment, at least, Kendall has said the Air Force is shooting for a cost per airframe that is a “fractio...$

01/09/2025

For the first increment, at least, Kendall has said the Air Force is shooting for a cost per airframe that is a “fraction” of the price of a crewed F-35, somewhere between $25-30 million each.

Increment 2 of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) should have more capability but not be "exquisite," Secretary Frank Kendall said.

01/09/2025

PTS-P seeks to develop a secure communications system impervious to adversary jamming.

Northrop Grumman and Boeing are making progress on prototype payloads to demonstrate jam-resistant tactical communications for Space Force.

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