by Carl Borsani | May 23, 2016 | Industry News
US Air Force leaders outlined what the next 20 years will look like for remotely piloted aircraft in the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan. “The Small UAS Flight Plan outlines a vision and strategy for the continued development, operation and sustainment of...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 27, 2016 | Industry News
WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin has built a scaled-down version of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation space surveillance system in New Jersey as a way to test hardware and software for the Space Fence, the company announced March 28. Lockheed Martin won a $914 million...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 26, 2016 | Industry News
WASHINGTON: The Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is taking a “very serious” look at to making the electromagnetic spectrum a formal “domain” of military operations, a top aide to the Pentagon’s chief information officer told me this morning. The move would...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 20, 2016 | Industry News
NASA and its partners, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Honeywell International and the RTCA Special Committee (SC)-228, are validating and advancing technologies that will assist the Federal Aviation Administration as they develop the regulations to allow...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 20, 2016 | Industry News
The US Air Force is to integrate the Northrop Grumman AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening targeting and designation pod onto the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to demonstrate the capability, it was disclosed on 12 April. A...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 20, 2016 | Industry News
The vice commander of an air wing that supports the U.S. Air Force Academy will be the next base commander at Wright-Patterson, Ohio’s largest single-site employer, officials said. Col. Bradley W. McDonald will take over the top post of the 88th Air Base Wing in June,...