A team of high ranking Air Force officials visited here recently in an effort to determine whether to change the way maintenance is performed on the B-1B Lancer strategic bomber. Called the "Red Team," the group from Air Force Materiel Command, Air Combat Command and the Air Staff are considering implementing a concept called High Velocity Maintenance, or HVM
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AUSTIN, Texas --- BAE Systems will equip U.S
The Honorable John Young, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics USD (AT&L) approved a major revision to the DoD Acquisition System (DoD Instruction 5000.02) today
ARLINGTON, Va. --- The Aerospace Industries Association is launching an outreach campaign to underscore the value of the aerospace and defense industry to our nation's economic health
The GAO was asked to identify the impact C-5 modernization cost increases have had on the mix of US strategic transport aircraft; assess the current C-5 modernization cost estimate; and identify C-17 production plans and issues related to production line shutdown.>> What GAO Found>> The Air Force has cut the number of C-5s it plans to fully modernize by more than half because of substantial cost increases in the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Reengining Program (RERP) and plans to acquire more C-17s, with additional congressional funding
The Andhra Pradesh government laid the foundation stone for an aerospace and aviation special economic zone (SEZ) on the inaugural day of the India Aviation 2008, the first-ever civil aviation expo, which began here today. Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) will be the first company to set up shop in the SEZ, for which the government has allotted 50 acre
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe's leading system supplier of protected vehicles on tracks and wheels, has delivered the first of a total of 24 FENNEK pioneer vehicles to the German Army's pioneer troops. The handover took place at the end of September during the "2008 Pioneers" training exercise and the subsequent "Pioneers' Day" at the Mnchnsmnster barracks near Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany