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Four teams are expected to compete for the contract for a new U.S. Air Force training jet. The draft request for proposals is unique in offering incentives for exceeding threshold performance...
Rockwell Collins reported mixed third-quarter fiscal 2016 results before markets opened Monday morning.
When Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) reports earnings July 27, the company will recognize impacts to earnings of $2.05 billion on three different programs. We’ll have more detail later, but here’s...
Last week, a Boeing KC-46A tanker successfully passed 1,500 pounds of fuel to an A-10 Warthog, clearing a major milestone in the program.
The saga of the new U.S. Air Force tanker is now about 15 years old and the service has yet to receive one new plane. When Boeing reports second-quarter earnings later this month, we are likely to...
Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) used the occasion of the Farnborough Air Show to unveil its candidate to replace the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of T-38 training jets. The T-100, as Raytheon’s entry...
The U.S. Navy on Thursday awarded two contracts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with a combined value of more than $2 billion.
SAIC reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2017 results before markets opened Monday morning, due in part to its Scitor acquisition.
At a conference on Wednesday, Boeing said it has come up with a fix to the refueling problem that has caused a delay in the delivery of the new KC-46A tanker for the U.S. Air Force.
Lockheed Martin and its partner, Korea Aerospace Industries, have successfully completed the first test flight of a modified KAI T-50 training jet.
In a joint press release Friday afternoon, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and the U.S. Air Force are moving the formal production decision on the new KC-46A tanker program from June to August 2016. At the...
One of the year's worst-kept secrets received a little sunshine on Tuesday when Pentagon officials acknowledged that the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter will not be ready for final testing...
The U.S. Congress is currently debating the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, and it's really anyone's guess what the outcome will be.
The U.S. Air Force wants to replace its aging UH-1N helicopters on a sole-source contract with the Sikorsky division of Lockheed Martin.
U.S. defense department officials are saying that the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program to replace the venerable Humvee is expected to be six months late.