Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the U.S. Air Force could deploy Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lighting IIÂ aircraft to Europe as early as next summer, Defense News reported Thursday. Valerie Insinna
MoreThe U.S. Air Force has received its 100th Lockheed Martin-built F-35 with the fighter aircraft’s delivery to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona Friday. The service branch said Saturday the milestone follows the declaration of initial operational
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Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of the Air Combat Command, has said the Lockheed Martin-built F-35A Lightning II aircraft has achieved initial operational capability. Carlisle on Tuesday declared the F-35A fighter jet âcombat readyâ after
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the North Atlantic Council has cleared a plan to deploy in 2017 multinational battalions to the eastern part that marks the allianceâs border with Russia, DoD
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Randall Walden, director and program executive officer of the U.S. Air Forceâs rapid capabilities office, has said the value of the engineering, manufacturing and development contract for the B-21 Long-Range Strike Bomber aircraft
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Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, has revealed that flight tests on the update to the F-35 fighter jet’s Block 3i software is near complete after contractors worked to
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A U.S. Air Force official has said issues with logistics software could pose a challenge towards the service branchâs goal to achieve initial operational capability for its F-35A fighter jets in 2016,
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The Defense Information Systems Agency has formed a new unit to coordinate the protection of the Defense Department‘s internal networks across nearly 40 military organizations, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “We can send out an order
MoreNegotiations between the U.S. Air Force and Congress are focused on the branch’s plans to retire some A-10 planes and reassign maintenance personnel to prepare for the initial operational capability of the F-35A, Defense News reported Tuesday.
MoreThe Boeing P-8A Poseidon long-range maritime surveillance plane could be deployed as early as September if the Navy declares it to have achieved initial operational capability, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal-Esa and
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