Category Archives: U.S. Air Force

Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software

Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software

Marine Sgt. Usbaldo Miranda, Jr., systems configuration coordinator, Marine Air Control Squadron 1, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), monitors his computer inside an expeditionary command and control (C2) node during a training exercise at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, Feb. 7, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

A parallel acquisition system – buying needed apps by monthly or yearly subscription to meet changing mission requirements – could improve deterrence by complicating an enemy’s war planning, Lockheed Martin’s top executive suggested Wednesday. Read More

Pentagon Releases Suicide Recommendations 'Subject to Availability of Funding'

Pentagon Releases Suicide Recommendations ‘Subject to Availability of Funding’

Sailors and Marines conduct a foreign object debris walk-down at dusk on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in 2009. US Navy Photo

The Pentagon will not address improvements to junior enlisted base housing, expanding transportation access for troops or changing on-base firearm purchase policy as part of its latest suicide prevention plan, Defense Department officials told reporters this week. Read More

2 A-10 Warthogs Drill with U.S. Destroyer in Middle East Maritime Exercise

2 A-10 Warthogs Drill with U.S. Destroyer in Middle East Maritime Exercise

An A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to Combined Forces Air Component Commander flies past guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG-63) during air operations in maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercise in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 23, 2023. US Navy Photo

A pair of U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs ­– better known as Warthogs – drilled with U.S. warships in the Gulf of Oman in a maritime exercise, the Navy announced Monday. Read More

GAO Report on F-35 Sustainment

GAO Report on F-35 Sustainment

The following is the September, 2023, Government Accountability Office report, F-35: DOD and the Military Services Need to Reassess the Future Sustainment Strategy. Read More

Franchetti: Columbia Program Meeting Contracted Delivery Schedule

Franchetti: Columbia Program Meeting Contracted Delivery Schedule

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti answers questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee during her confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., Sep. 14 2023. U.S. Navy Photo

The program to replace the Navy’s sea-based leg of the nuclear triad is on track for its new schedule, the nominee to lead the sea service told Congress on Thursday. Read More

Short-Term Problems are Prime Focus of New Pentagon Drone Initiative

Short-Term Problems are Prime Focus of New Pentagon Drone Initiative

Two unmanned surface vessels, a Devil Ray T-38 and Saildrone Explorer, operate in the Gulf of Aqaba, Sept. 10, during Eager Lion 2022. US Navy Photo

Solving short-term problems for military commanders in the Pacific and Europe is driving the Pentagon’s push to accelerate production of attritable air, sea and ground drones powered by artificial intelligence, USNI News has learned. Read More

U.S. Allies Key to Deterring Russia, China, Financially a 'Mixed Bag,' Experts Say

U.S. Allies Key to Deterring Russia, China, Financially a ‘Mixed Bag,’ Experts Say

Marines with the Battalion Landing Team 1/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)) Bravo Command Element engage targets while training with Italian Marines San Marco Brigade, during an integrated live-fire sniper range part of a Norwegian Bilateral Exercise in Setermoen, Norway, Aug. 12, 2023. Marine Corps Photo

America’s more than 60 allies and partners remain its greatest security asset in deterring conflict with China and Russia as well as its greatest commitment if war breaks out,” the author of “How to be a ‘Cheap Hawk’ in the 2020s” said Wednesday. Read More