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The Air Force is exploring multiple options to ensure the service gets the products it wants and helps industry where it is struggling along the way. The war in Ukraine, supply chain shortages, COVID and inflation are all throwing a wrench in pricing and contracting.
Here are three news items you may have missed from the recent Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference sponsored by ACT-IAC in Cambridge, Md.
GAO doesn't opine on whether Huntsville was the right or wrong decision. But the office says the Air Force made some fundamental missteps
The latest lawsuit challenging DoD's COVID-19 vaccine mandate says the Air Force's religious accommodation process is set up to make those exemptions almost impossible to get.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Air Force now has its own cooking show.
The Air Force left out critical best practices in selecting the new headquarters.
A Virginia National Guard thinks it's found a way to save the Air Force hundreds of thousands of man hours each year just by auto-filling a single form.
The contract is part of a $4.9 billion rebuild of the base, which was destroyed in 2018.
Senators seek to establish National Guard for space missions, correcting what they see as a "mistake" in Space Force's initial establishment.
DoD is still quiet on the issue of online harassment.
Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers later this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials.
Hypersonic projectiles, missiles moving at five times the speed of sound, have become a high priority across the Defense Department. You've got two basic ways of getting projectiles to go that fast. One is the electromagnetic rail gun. The other is the use of hat planners call air breathing engines, and those are the topic of a new effort at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Like so many large government organizations, the Air Force is pursuing what it calls digital transformation. But what exactly is that, and what are the challenges to getting there. That question formed the basis for a series of workshops led by the National Academy of Science.
The company is called Ditto. Not a household name in defense contracting. But if just got an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the Air Force, worth a potential billion dollars.