DOD

The DOD’s new Joint Safety Council aims to “bridge the gap between commercial aviation practices and military aviation realities.”

Contracts go to General Electric Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.

The tactical combat drones were rapidly developed earlier this year by the U.S. Air Force specifically for the Ukrainian fight.

Sweeping $840 billion defense bill includes purchase of more than five dozen new F-35 fighters.

U.K.-based Reaction Engines has a DoD contract to further validate technology for a hybrid jet-rocket high-Mach engine.

F-35 prices continue to climb; officials look to rein in cost.

‘If DOD moves forward as planned, it will have bought a third of all F-35s before determining that the aircraft is ready to move into the full-rate production phase,’ GAO warned.

Whisper Aero has finished validation testing of its new ultra-quiet, high efficiency electric aircraft propulsion technology for the Pentagon.

The U.S. Navy’s fighter attack fleet availability ‘fell considerably more’ than that of the Air Force, according to the government report.

Santa came early this year for dozens of island communities in the South Pacific, powered not by nine reindeer, but instead four Rolls-Royce turboprop power plants, each generating 4,700 horsepower. Last week, U.S. Air Force crew members concluded an annual weeklong airdrop of food, tools, fishing equipment, and clothing out the back of C-130 Hercules […]