The three finalists in the DARPA Launch Challenge include a mystery competitor Three teams have qualified to go into the rocket-launching phase of the DARPA Launch Challenge: Vector Launch, Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space… Read More
Acting Pentagon chief is facing an ethics investigation over charges of Boeing bias Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics… Read More
Boeing unveils a new breed of ‘wingman’ drones that fly with piloted military jets Boeing is unveiling a new type of uncrewed aircraft that’s designed to fly military missions alongside piloted airplanes, known as… Read More
Lost in 1943, the USS Strong is found again by Paul Allen’s Petrel research vessel The USS Strong put in less than a year of service at sea, but the destroyer and its crew nevertheless… Read More
President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of… Read More
Geek of the Week: Air Force and Blue Origin vet Katherine Pratt aims high as a PhD candidate with an eye on data privacy Katherine Pratt has a degree from MIT, she interned at Blue Origin, worked on fighter jets in the Air Force,… Read More
Paul Allen’s deepest legacy: Expedition surveys wreck of Japanese battleship Hiei A wide-ranging shipwreck survey funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is continuing after his death, and the latest discovery focuses… Read More
Surprise! Boeing hands Air Force the keys to not just one, but two KC-46 tanker jets Boeing executives today added an extra twist to what was expected to be a cut-and-dried ceremony to hand over its… Read More
Podcast Wrong Number: How to tell fact from fiction in a world full of bogus data Here’s a pop quiz: Which of these public statements contained incorrect or misleading numbers? “Add that to Marco’s plan for… Read More
After years of delay, Air Force accepts first Boeing KC-46 tanker; delivery coming soon After struggling through years of delay and absorbing billions of dollars of cost overruns, Boeing says the U.S. Air Force… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command ‘joke’ about dropping something on New Year’s Eve bombs on Twitter U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it… Read More
Former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan will take over Pentagon after his boss quits President Donald Trump says Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, will take charge of the Pentagon on… Read More
After four delays, SpaceX launches Air Force’s first next-gen GPS III satellite SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a next-generation GPS satellite into orbit today for the U.S. Air Force, marking a couple… Read More
SpaceX wins $28.7M contract from Air Force for data connectivity research SpaceX has won a $28.7 million fixed-price contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for experiments in data connectivity involving… Read More
Trump authorizes revival of U.S. Space Command, with Space Force on agenda President Donald Trump today authorized the Pentagon to set up the U.S. Space Command as its own combatant command, in… Read More
Air Force sets up $100,000 VQ-Prize contest for space awareness visualization The U.S. Air Force is looking for a few good apps to visualize satellites and other objects in Earth orbit —… Read More
Space Force plan moves forward amid heightened talk about final-frontier fights The National Space Council today pushed forward recommendations to raise the profile of military space activities, at first through a… Read More
Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and ULA win Air Force’s backing for future rockets The U.S. Air Force says Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance have won its go-ahead for the development… Read More
Watch Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg take some ‘stick time’ in a T-X training jet One of the things I learned about Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is that he loves to fly the aircraft his… Read More
Boeing beats Lockheed to win $9.2B Air Force contract for fleet of T-X training jets The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a contract worth up to $9.2 billion for a new fleet of T-X… Read More
Jeff Bezos sells the Air Force on Blue Origin rockets and Amazon Web Services Billionaire Jeff Bezos made a subtle sales pitch for Amazon Web Services as well as the New Glenn rockets being… Read More
Boeing gets $2.9B contract for 18 Air Force KC-46 tankers as it nears first deliveries News Brief: The U.S. Air Force today awarded Boeing a $2.9 billion contract for 18 more KC-46A tanker aircraft and… Read More
Boeing wins $805M contract to build U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A robotic refueling planes After a months-long competition with the likes of Lockheed Martin, Boeing has won a $805.3 million contract from the Pentagon… Read More
CNN survey suggests support for Space Force doesn’t match Star Wars appeal News Brief: A CNN survey suggests most Americans don’t back the Trump administration’s plans to create a new military branch… Read More
VP Mike Pence details plan to create Space Force (sans starship troopers) by 2020 The Trump administration is taking immediate steps to raise the profile of the Defense Department’s space operations, and asking Congress… Read More
Amazon enlists first class of military veterans to graduate from Apprenti technical training program Amazon’s commitment to hiring military veterans took another step forward on Wednesday as the tech giant hosted a graduation event… Read More
Brace yourself for a loud Seafair Weekend: Fat Albert rejoins the Blue Angels air show Hey, hey, hey … it’s Fat Albert, in the skies over Seattle: We’re not talking about the jumbo-sized character created… Read More
Boeing boosts revenue outlook, but tanker troubles bedevil second-quarter results Second-quarter financial results that show higher revenue and earnings per share would typically please investors, but not for Boeing. Instead,… Read More
SpaceX wins $130 million Air Force launch contract, marking a first for Falcon Heavy The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $130 million firm-fixed-price contract to SpaceX for the launch of its classified AFSPC-52… Read More
President Trump directs Pentagon to create ‘separate but equal’ Space Force President Donald Trump today directed the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the… Read More
