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The U.S. Air Force plans to fly the F-15E Strike Eagle into the 2040s, but the F-15C/D air superiority fighter faces a shorter time horizon.

In a White House event, the President painted a bleak picture of the state of the U.S. air traffic control system the FAA manages.

The manufacturer expects to complete the FAA type design update process for the C-130 civil freighter by 2018.

The U.S. Army plans to upgrade 542 CH-47F and MH-47G helicopters, with deliveries starting in 2023.

Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter assumes command of the $379 billion procurement from retiring Air Force general Christopher Bogdan.

More than 750,000 small drone owners registered after the FAA in rushed circumstances created an on-line system in December 2015.

The White House announced $110 billion in arms and services agreements during President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia.

The manufacturer has produced two jets from a clean-sheet design to compete for the Air Force's T-X advanced jet trainer requirement.

The manufacturer plans to complete certification testing and begin delivering the 767 military derivative by the end of the year.

Plans call for the first flight of the inaugural F-35B rolled out of the Cameri final assembly and checkout facility to take place in August.

While most of the excitement has centered on small drones, communications and detect-and-avoid standards for large drones are advancing.

U.S.-based Airbus Aerial will provide imagery services to customers using both drones and satellites.

Designed for close-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, the Snipe is worn on the operator's clothing and launched by hand.

What the FAA wants is direction from state and local governments about what authorities they would like to control small drone operations.

FAA executives described a multi-pronged federal campaign to control and counter small drones at a meeting of the Drone Advisory Committee.

The Autonomic Logistics Information System Version 2.0.2 software update was originally planned for completion last summer.

The study by the FAA's ASSURE center of excellence suggests the potential of serious injury is less than for firmer objects of similar mass.

After a competitive selection process, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chose Mississippi for a program orginally started in Oklahoma.

The action follows the temporary grounding earlier this month of T-45C Goshawk jets the service uses for pilot training.

The Government Accountability Office estimates that F-35 baseline software testing will continue to May 2018 for an additional $1.7 billion.

The Global Hawk manufacturer is one of two anchor tenants at the Grand Sky unmanned aircraft systems business park with General Atomics.

Manufacturers vying to provide the Navy's new carrier-launched unmanned refueling aircraft expect a request for proposals this summer.

The Air Force authorized F-16 Block 40-52 flight operations to 12,000 hours, potentially extending the fighter's service life into the 2040s.

The president nominated two former Republican congressman to serve as Export-Import Bank directors, one of them a past opponent of the agency.

The Air Force Research Laboratory developed the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast conventional bomb in 2003 but it was never used.

The FAA action to prevent drone flights over 133 military facilities is the first time it has instituded drone-specific airspace restrictions.

The Navy's baseline MQ-4C Triton was supposed to come with sense-and-avoid radar, but that capability has been postponed to a 2024 upgrade.

The three-day T-45C grounding comes as the Navy copes with increasing rates of physiological episodes in Hornets, Super Hornets and Growlers.

The upgraded F/A-18E/F multirole fighter would ably complement the F-35C Lightning II in carrier air wings into the 2030s, Boeing says.

Program leaders awaited the go-ahead to begin low-rate initial production of the estimated $26 billion acquisition from the Pentagon.