Air Force seeks technologies to enhance Airborne Laser project

Posted at: Tue May 8th, 2007

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., 8 May 2007. Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop new enabling electro-optic technologies for the Airborne Laser system (ABL), which is designed to destroy ballistic missiles in flight.

General Atomics Awarded $68M for MQ-9 Reaper & MQ-1B Block X

Posted at: Tue May 8th, 2007

General Atomics, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $58,976,370 firm-fixed-price contract. This effort is for the manufacture, test and delivery of four Predator B Reaper MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicles and associated equipment to include initial spares, gr...

EADS advances the RAAF’s KC-30B MRTT to next test phase

Posted at: Tue May 8th, 2007

EADS has successfully completed ground vibration testing of the Royal Australian Air Force's first KC-30B Multi-role Tanker Transport (MRTT), advancing the world’s most capable military aerial refueling tanker/transport program closer to the flight test p...

Air Force officials evaluating KC-X proposals

Posted at: Tue May 8th, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFNEWS) -- The Air Force source selection evaluation team is poring over industry proposals for the KC-X program, the replacement for the Air Force's aging KC-135 Stratotanker ...