A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III landed at Camp Davis South, part of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, marking the first time the heavy-lift aircraft has touched down there in more than 20 years. The roughly 140-ton jet, longer than half a football field, landed alongside Canadian C-130 transports to support […]

The U.S. Air Force just gave itself a lot more room to sell Boeing’s aerial refueling tanker overseas. In a contract modification worth $13.4 billion, the Air Force raised the ceiling on an existing Foreign Military Sales agreement for the KC-46A Pegasus tanker from $5.7 billion to $19.1 billion, more than tripling how much business […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded BlueHalo a contract worth up to nearly $100 million for research and development work under a program called Leveraged Orbital Battlespace Optimization. The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract runs through August 29, 2031, and came out of a competitive process in which BlueHalo was the only company to submit […]

The U.S. Air Force has added $826 million to its bulk missile contract with Lockheed Martin, pushing the total value of the deal past $10 billion for the first time. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, issued the contract modification for continued production of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Conti Federal Services a $74.8 million contract to build a new radio frequency and measurements hangar for the B-21 Raider stealth bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. The facility will include space for one B-21 aircraft, along with supporting workshops, material storage, and administrative offices. Three […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded four manufacturers a combined $149 million to build metal cases for large bunker-busting bombs, splitting the work across small forging and machining shops rather than a single prime contractor. Superior Forge and Steel of Lima, Ohio; Ellwood National Forge of Irvine, Pennsylvania; Faxon Machining LLC of Cincinnati, Ohio; and […]

American and Russian military aircraft will appear at the same airshow this week, as the U.S. Air Force sends fighters and cargo planes to Egypt’s El Alamein International Airshow alongside a Russian delegation set to showcase its Su-57E stealth fighter. The 2026 Egypt International Airshow officially opens September 8 at El Alamein International Airport, drawing […]

The U.S. Air Force wants to buy 60 handheld counter-drone jammers for its Pacific forces, according to a solicitation Pacific Air Forces published September 8, though the purchase can’t move forward until funding becomes available. The notice, posted by PACAF’s 18th Contracting Squadron, calls for 60 DroneBuster 5 units equipped with a GPS-focused add-on kit, […]

The U.S. Air Force has given one of its newest contracting vehicles a name that sounds like it belongs in a Hollywood blockbuster: Megatron. The Department of the Air Force posted a notice on September 4 on the government’s public contracting portal, opening a new multi-year purchasing arrangement called the “DAF Battle Network ‘Megatron’ Multiple […]

A U.S. Air Force EC-130H Compass Call aircraft flew in formation with an EA-37B Compass Call for the first time on September 3, in what the Air Force identified as the EC-130H’s final flight, marking the end of the propeller-driven aircraft’s role in the service’s electronic attack mission. Both aircraft belong to the 55th Electronic […]

Air Force maintenance crews completed a first-of-its-kind overhaul of a Minuteman III missile suspension system on August 18, removing the component from a launch facility near Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, shipping it to California for a full refurbishment, and reinstalling it back at the same site. The work was carried out by the […]

The U.S. Air Force is seeking to buy four Echodyne EchoShield counter-drone radars for a rescue squadron based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, according to a solicitation the service’s 31st Contracting Squadron published September 4. The notice is a request for quotes, not a completed purchase. The Air Force explicitly states in the solicitation that […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a $31.8 million contract to design a modification kit that would convert standard C-130J Super Hercules aircraft into ski-equipped LC-130Js, according to a Department of War contract announcement. The Colorado-based company will perform non-recurring engineering work, covering the design, development and analysis of the kit, at […]

EVEX Corp. and Divergent Technologies said Tuesday they will jointly develop a new autonomous aircraft platform, combining AEVEX’s unmanned systems work with Divergent’s 3D-printing based manufacturing process. The companies did not disclose a contract value or say which government customer, if any, the resulting aircraft is intended for. AEVEX, based in Solana Beach, California, builds […]

The U.S. Air Force has added $11.2 million to a contract with BlueHalo LLC for a program called Aiman Improved Readiness, bringing the deal’s total value to $41.2 million, up from $30 million, according to a Department of War contract announcement. The modification adds scope to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract Air Force Research Laboratory originally awarded […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an $86.1 million task order to maintain the security cameras and sensors that watch over America’s nuclear missile silos. The task order covers program management, maintenance, sustaining engineering and support services for the Remote Visual Assessment program, a ground-based camera and sensor network that monitors Minuteman III […]