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Share Lockheed Martin F-16 Credit: U.S. Air Force/Staff St. Joshua Dewberry The U.S. Air Force chief of staff is entertaining a clean-sheet design to replace the F-16 and wants the tactical aircraft mix discussion to extend past the service and into the Office Of The Secretary Of Defense (OSD). The service needs to determine what the “son of [Next Generation Air Dominance]” will be to replace the F-16, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown told reporters Feb. 17 during a virtual De...

US Air Force eyes budget-conscious, clean-sheet fighter jet to replace the F-16 February 18 An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron lands at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. (Senior Airman Bryan Guthrie/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force could be in the market for a brand-new, advanced, fourth-generation fighter jet as it looks to replace its oldest F-16s, the service’s top general said Wednesday. The Air Force has started a s...

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Subsea Defense: Navy Deepens Commitment to Underwater Vehicles Senior Chief Mineman Abraham Garcia (left) and Aerographers Mate 1st Class Joshua Gaskill, members of the Knifefish Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) test team, man tending lines during crane operations as part of an operational test conducted by members from Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR). Knifefish is a medium-class mine countermeasure UUV designed for deployment off the Littoral Combat Ship...

Read Article The office that oversees legal services for Maine’s poor is asking for more employees to fix a myriad of financial and constitutional problems identified by watchdog groups. The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services has been under scrutiny as lawyers and legislators alike call for reform. A state agency published a report last year that concluded the commission has little organizational structure, lacks oversight and does not have established policies for attorney billing....

The Navy is "in a good place," CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says, "as we present that analysis to senior decision makers, and we really re-litigate, if you will, the ‘22 budget submit -- which was very heavily in the Navy’s favor with respect to shipbuilding.” By   Paul McLeary on February 09, 2021 at 4:51 PM

"This is a change in the way that the JROC has historically worked," Stuart Whitehead, J6 deputy director for cyber and C4 integration says. "In order for JADC2 to work, requirements -- particularly at the enterprise level -- have to be understood and documented in a way that so that we can describe our requirements to our acquisition counterparts in a more specific way than maybe what we had done previously." By   Theresa Hitchens on February 08, 2021 at 11:35 AM

Boeing’s F-15EX jet makes its first flight The F-15EX makes its inaugural flight on Feb. 2, 2021. (Eric Shindelbower/Boeing) WASHINGTON — Boeing’s first F-15EX took to the skies for its inaugural flight on Feb. 2, a milestone that will allow the company to deliver the first two planes to the U.S. Air Force by the end of March. After a couple of hours of delays due to weather — which also held up plans to conduct a first flight on Feb. 1 — Boeing test pilot Matt “Phat” Giese took...

A long to-do list awaits Biden’s deputy defense secretary nominee February 1 Kathleen Hicks, now the nominee for the No. 2 job at the Pentagon, hosts an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in a file photo. (CSIS) WASHINGTON — Kathleen Hicks, President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy defense secretary, is expected to cruise through her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, paving her way into the Pentagon in the coming weeks. And when she gets there, experts said, ...

William Roderick Summerhill Jr. died at sunrise in Houston, Texas of natural causes on January 14th, 2021 at the age of 86. He was preceded in death by his wife,