Tag: Air Force

May 8, 2023

Over the last several years, Congress has passed several pieces of legislation meant to speed up the Defense Department’s acquisition system. Now, DoD officials have an idea of their own: they’re asking for new authorities that would let the military […]

March 21, 2022

The 2022 appropriations bill President Joe Biden signed last week includes $1.2 billion above and beyond what the military services requested in the spending accounts they use to maintain and repair deteriorating facilities, going some way toward backfilling an infrastructure […]

October 26, 2021

Congress is set to force America’s armed services to keep better track of their guns and explosives, imposing new rules in response to an Associated Press investigation that showed firearms stolen from U.S. bases have resurfaced in violent crimes. Under […]

July 23, 2021

The Senate Armed Services Committee is stuffing an extra $35 billion into the Defense Department budget and recommending a monumental change to the way crimes are prosecuted in the military in its version of the 2022 defense authorization bill. The […]

July 19, 2021

The National Guard is preparing to take drastic measures to keep its accounts solvent for the remainder of this fiscal year, saying there’s still no indication Congress will come up with the emergency funding it would need to reimburse it […]

June 17, 2021

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 billion just four years in. In April, reports suggested that the company was on the hunt […]

May 14, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and maximum telework orders have stressed the Defense Department’s networks, and also exposed the need for mobile device security. Jason Howe, the Air Force’s CTO and chief cloud architect for manpower, personnel and services (A1) said the […]

May 26, 2016

A broad agency announcement from the Air Force Research Laboratory requesting research and development in support of software-defined radio frequency capabilities. The Air Force wants to use advances in software and hardware to make its radio communications more adaptable to […]

April 29, 2016

The U.S. Air Force has awarded SpaceX an $82.7 million contract to launch their GPS-3 satellite into orbit. This is the first National Security Space (NSS) contract for SpaceX, who won essentially by default since ULA, the only other viable […]