As he prepares to retire in the next two months after 34 years in uniform, U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael “Mini” Minihan, the head of Air Mobility Command, said on July 23 that, while AMC is making connectivity progress, the command will not meet his “25 by 25” goal, set last year, to ...

In this monthly column, Defense Daily highlights individuals from across the government, industry and academia whose efforts contribute daily to national defense, from the program managers to the human resource leaders, to the engineers and logistics officers. Jim Coyle is the U.S. Public Sector ...

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are negotiating prices for 19 B-21 Raider stealth bombers to follow the 21 scheduled for five lots of low-rate initial production (LRIP), and the average prices for those 19 will be higher than for the earlier 21, the company said. An inflation and ...

Boeing [BA] has agreed to pay a $51 million civil penalty to the U.S. government to resolve 199 arms export control violations, including technical data related to aircraft and missiles, the State Department said on Thursday. The Charging Letter released by the State Department says that the ...

FMTV Extension. The Army plans to extend its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) contract with Oshkosh Defense for an additional three years, estimating it may order an additional 1,343 vehicles over that period. The contract extension covers vehicle, trailer and kit production and logistics, ...

The Army in early 2024 is slated to choose either Palantir [PLTR] or RTX [RTX] to move forward in its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program to continue developing the service’s new intelligence ground station, a lead official said Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Ed Barker, the Army’s ...

This summer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) moved to all digital imagery after the agency finished the June processing of the final two miles of wet film from the KA-80 Optical Bar Camera (OBC), used by reconnaissance aircraft and satellites for nearly 70 years for precision, ...

The Aug. 29 Cape Canaveral, Fla. launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 configuration rocket carrying sensing payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space Force NROL-107 SILENTBARKER program is to be the last Atlas V launch for NRO. ULA is a joint venture ...

The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) 1st Special Operations Contracting Squadron is nearing the end of a year-long operational evaluation of the military effectiveness of SpaceX's Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites, according to Air Force Life Cycle ...

The F-35 program has lost track of millions of dollars in spare parts held at more than 50 domestic and international non-prime contractor sites, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said in August 2021 that it was on track to ...