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Four Pentagon offices are working together on an ambitious hybrid architecture that spans orbits as well as classification levels, officials told Breaking Defense.

The new tech is a crewless aircraft that can support a wide range of operations, from cargo transport to golf cart-style transit that can ferry army units over short distances all over training facilities and fields. Air Force authorities, however, call everyone to stop referring to it as a "flying car," regardless of what it looks like or does.

The sixth-generation fighter will proceed on a much slower timeline but will add real capabilities, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall explained.

The former top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee has signed another cryptocurrency client, trading platform FTX.

The following is the June 23, 2022 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Air Force Next-Generation Air Dominance Program. From the report According to the Air Force, the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is intended to develop “a portfolio of technologies enabling air superiority.” The Air Force intends for NGAD to replace the F-22 fighter […]

The US Air Force (USAF) is close to buying and beginning to deploy its first electric 'flying car' for ferrying passengers or cargo under its Agility Prime program in 2023.

Colorado-based Ursa Major is developing its reusable Arroway 200,000-pound thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged combustion engine for military and

Moving to the development stage more than likely means that the Air Force has coalesced around a single fighter design made by a single prime contractor, said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with AeroDynamic Advisory.

"[Air Force] organizations get to manage individual programs, but we don't have someone who is in charge of the overall design of these things that have to tie together and perform functions as a whole,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “I think we need to create something that has more of that kind of responsibility."

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