January 8, 2015 Pentagon Satellites to Persistently Stare at Targets in 10 Years Over the next decade, the Pentagon plans to launch satellites that offer a revolutionary leap in surveillance technology by persistently staring at targets from space for long periods of time, an official said. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers gave the estimate at a defense conference this week in Washington, D.C. The Defense […]
January 8, 2015 Navy Plans for Fighter to Replace the F/A-18 Hornet in 2030s The Navy is beginning to work on a a next-generation carrier-launched fighter jet to replace the existing F/A-18 Super Hornet and Growler aircraft by 2030 and supplement the F-35C the Pentagon is still developing, service officials said. The Navy effort, called the F/A-XX program, includes early work on the desired technological capabilities for the new aircraft. The […]
January 8, 2015 Republicans Press to Save A-10 Following New Air Force Proposal The Air Force has reportedly offered a compromise to only retire three A-10 squadrons, not the entire fleet.
January 8, 2015 Pentagon Wants to Build Aircraft Carriers in the Sky The Pentagon’s main research arm wants to find out what a flying “aircraft carrier” carrying a fleet of small aerial drones might look like and how much it would cost the military. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Sunday it would open a competition for proposals to build a large aircraft — similar to a C-130 […]
January 8, 2015 Air Force Ready to Fight Ebola with Virus-killing Robot Air Force doctors at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia have a germ-killing robot ready to help keep rooms clean should any returning service member show symptoms of Ebola. The 366th Medical Group at Langley is responsible for housing and monitoring troops returning from Ebola aid missions to West Africa during a mandatory 21-day quarantine period. […]
January 8, 2015 DARPA Tests New Close Air Support Technology The Pentagon’s top research arm and Raytheon will test a new system designed to massively speed up air-ground coordination and reduce targeting time for close air support from as long as an hour — down to as little as six minutes. A program called Persistent Close Air Support, or PCAS, connects pilots in real time with the […]
January 8, 2015 Jack Broughton, Vietnam War fighter pilot who criticized military leaders, dies in California Jack Broughton (BROH'-tuhn), the celebrated Air Force fighter pilot who flew more than 200 missions in Korea and Vietnam and later became an outspoken critic of military leaders, has died.
January 8, 2015 Key findings in AP investigation of problems in Air Force nuclear missile corps Over the past year and a half, The Associated Press has documented evidence of security problems, low morale and other troubles in the nation's nuclear missile corps.
January 8, 2015 China Echoes U.S. Warning on North Korea’s Nuclear Warheads China and South Korea joined Friday in warning of North Korea’s advances in nuclear technology that the U.S. commander in South Korea has said could include the miniaturization of a weapon for a missile warhead. After talks in Beijing, the nuclear envoys of China and South Korea agreed to cooperate in efforts to rein in […]
January 8, 2015 2 more Air Force nuke missile corps commanders fired, another disciplined The Air Force on Monday fired two more commanders in its nuclear missile corps and took lesser disciplinary action against a third.