Three converging forces are compelling the US Air Force to modernize its basic military training construct. At the strategic level, the Air Force and the other US services are pivoting to Asia, with major implications for individuals, units and staffs who heretofore have operated in set-in-stone assignments on paper: airmen and Space Force guardians in the 2023-era have the potential to take on new, emergent tasks during a conflict in that region. 

Following acceptance, Engineering, Manufacturing and Development flight testing is planned to start at the end of summer 2023.

The project for the first electric aircraft charging station on a U.S. military instillation has officially broken ground, with a completion date in early October.

In partnership with the U.S. Air Force, NASA will also use the aircraft for research focused on how these aircraft could fit into the national airspace, benefiting the entire air taxi industry.

Applied has won a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to generate high-fidelity synthetic data to train an algorithm designed to identify and track adversary systems.

The bilateral training focused on joint planning processes; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance fundamentals; and best practices for ISR support to operations.

Joby plans to build facility capable of delivering up to 500 aircraft per year and plans to invest up to $500 million, creating up to 2,000 jobs.

U.S. Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Civil Engineer Squadron completed mission-ready training designed to promote the development of multi-capable Airmen.

Bell plans for the test article to execute a series of HSVTOL high-speed transition maneuvers, a first-of-its-kind capability for vertical lift aircraft.

Using Red 6’s patented technology, pilots will be able to see and interact with virtual aircraft, targets and threats on the ground and in the air, while also experiencing the cognitive loads of physically flying the airplane.