by Carl Borsani | Feb 12, 2016 | Industry News
A new commander will take the reins of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson while a former test pilot who has led the command for nearly three years will retire. Maj. Gen. Robert D. McMurry, currently stationed at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.,...
by Carl Borsani | Dec 21, 2015 | Industry News
Northrop Grumman has scheduled flight tests of three new payloads for the RQ-4B Global Hawk fleet next year. The tests are made possible by the development of a universal payload adaptor jointly funded by Northrop and the US Air Force. In its original form, the RQ-4B...
by Carl Borsani | Dec 17, 2015 | Industry News
Pentagon officials are drafting new policy that would officially recognize the electromagnetic spectrum as a “domain” of warfare, joining land, sea, air, space and cyberspace, Breaking Defense has learned. The designation would mark the biggest shift in...
by Carl Borsani | Dec 4, 2015 | Industry News
Russian bombers circled the U.S. military hub on the Pacific island of Guam last week in the latest case of Moscow’s nuclear saber rattling. “On Nov. 25th, two Russian bomber aircraft circumvented Guam, transiting international airspace,” said Army Maj. Dave Eastburn,...
by Carl Borsani | Nov 5, 2015 | Industry News
As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a proponent of the JSTARS radar plane since arriving in Congress, I am alarmed by the undercurrent of discussion within Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) considering delaying the Next Generation JSTARS...
by Carl Borsani | Nov 3, 2015 | Industry News
If this article about the Soviets developing pre-Google maps of the world doesn’t give you the creeps, you don’t have much imagination. Read more