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National Defense March 2012 Erwin & Parsons |
Experts See No Logic in Air Force Mothballing New Global Hawks Buried in a long list of Pentagon budget proposals for the next five years is the Air Force's recommendation to retire a fleet of 18 brand-new Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned surveillance aircraft.  |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Although Combat Proven, Global Hawk Has Yet to Pass Key Tests In an upcoming evaluation of the U.S. Air Force Global Hawk reconnaissance unmanned aircraft, testers will determine whether a military system that already has seen extensive combat can pass the rigorous tests the Defense Department.  |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
U-2, Global Hawk Advocates Square Off in Budget Battle Today, more airmen train to fly drones than bombers and fighter jets. But at least one part of that transition from manned to unmanned aviation is on hold.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
New Global Hawk Production Aircraft Surpass 1,000 Combat Hours Two new Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance systems, built by Northrop Grumman Corp., have flown approximately 50 missions and more than 1,000 combat hours in support of coalition forces since their deployment in the Persian Gulf in January of this year.  |
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Eamon Javers |
Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar.  |
National Defense August 2006 David Axe |
Clouds on the horizon for pilot-less bombers After years of steady growth in funding, development and operational use, unmanned aerial vehicles have begun to rival -- and, in some cases, exceed -- the capability of manned aircraft.  |
National Defense March 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Battle Brewing Over Future Of Army Aviation Programs Army officials are considering the complete divestment of the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior and TH-67 training helicopter, announced Maj. Gen. Kevin Mangum, commanding general of the Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker.  |
National Defense February 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Preventive Care Prescribed for Pentagon Big-Ticket Programs Acquisition officials at the Pentagon must decide which programs get to live and which ones get put out of their misery.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John McHale |
UAV Market Shows Strong Growth Through Next Decade The market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appears to be growing steadily over the next ten years because of the successful deployment of these pilotless aircraft in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, market analysts say.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John Keller |
DOD to cut unmanned aerial vehicle procurement by one third over next decade The early years of the 21st century have seen explosive growth in U.S. Department of Defense purchases of unmanned aerial vehicles, but DOD is expected to cut UAV procurement by one-third over the next decade.  |
National Defense August 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Drones in The Military: Infatuation or True Love? Unmanned aircraft will remain an important component in the aerospace industry, but the military is still uncertain how to integrate them into their plans.  |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
UAV Programs Illustrate DoD's Broken Procurement System Lack of inter-service coordination in unmanned aircraft programs is wasting millions of dollars and slowing down much-needed modernization, said departing Pentagon acquisition chief John Young.  |
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.  |
National Defense May 2004 Frank Colucci |
Air Force Refines Training Programs for UAV Operators With growing numbers of Predator and Global Hawk unmanned aircraft expected to enter service in the years ahead, the U.S. Air Force is solidifying plans to train operators and support crews.  |
National Defense February 2008 David A. Deptula |
Unmanned Aircraft Not Just for Combat The speed with which unmanned aircraft capabilities have advanced in recent years has been astonishing.  |
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Fewer New Programs for Industry, But Still Plenty of Work Manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles can expect to see fewer new starts of major programs at the Defense Department in the near future, but they can still count on a significant amount of work  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
UAV Market Outlook Strong Defense and aerospace analysts say the most vibrant growth in the industry lays with unmanned systems, specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).  |
National Defense May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems.  |
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Surveillance Needs Fuel Demand for Unmanned Vehicles Currently, there are nearly 1,000 robotic vehicles being used for surveillance and reconnaissance, especially in maritime areas in the Central Command theater of operations, and combatant commanders keep asking for more.  |
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons |
Special Operations Boost Demand for Helicopters Special operations forces have a dedicated fleet of tricked-out helicopters at their disposal, but as their workload grows, they are increasingly reliant on conventional aircraft to get their jobs done.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller |
Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  |
National Defense March 2006 Grace Jean |
Urban Battlefield is Proving Ground For Unmanned Aerial Systems Demand for smaller and more capable aircraft systems continues to grow but analysts say that in order to make these aircraft more effective in the urban environment, a fistful of technology improvements are needed.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller |
Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.  |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Uncertainty, Challenges Mark Future For Military's Unpiloted Aircraft The use of unmanned aerial systems in Iraq and Afghanistan has shown that they are invaluable in uncontested airspace. But questions remain about how the current generation of U.S. drones would fair in unfriendly skies.  |
National Defense November 2012 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Become Lighter, Faster In the future, the military can expect to have unmanned aerial vehicles that are faster, stealthier and lighter, with longer endurance and can hold heavier payloads.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra Erwin |
Defense Procurement: Hard Decisions `Kicked Down the Road' Will the escalating costs of the war in Iraq and the rising price tags of weapon systems eventually result in the cliched Defense Department budget train wreck so many analysts have predicted for several years now?  |
National Defense June 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Northrop Grumman Aims To Retain Grip on Aviation Northrop Grumman Corp. makes a big play to join the ranks of Lockheed Martin and Boeing as one of the nation's top manufacturers of combat aircraft.  |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Military, Industry Racing to Create Sense-and-Avoid Systems Congress has set a 2015 deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration to phase drones into civil airspace, but one of the technologies needed to safely operate unmanned aircraft won't be ready until at least a year later.  |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Air Force F-35s, Drones May Square Off in Budget Battle Unmanned aerial vehicles have become a potent portion of the U.S. Air Force inventory and an indispensable weapon in the global war on terror.  |
National Defense April 2009 Matthew Rusling |
With No Replacement in Sight, Army's Oldest Helos Keep Going The Army's oldest and busiest scout helicopters were supposed to be retired by now. Instead, maintenance crews scramble to keep them operating around the clock -- in two theaters of war.  |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Confusion Surrounds Navy's Carrier-Based Drone The Navy in 2010 first released a request for information for the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, or UCLASS, but officials took years debating whether it wanted a revolutionary technology or something less risky.  |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Navy Surveillance Drone Undergoes First Round of Flight Tests The Navy is one step closer to having its own fleet of unmanned aircraft capable of conducting long-endurance surveillance missions at high altitudes. The MQ-4C Triton completed its initial test flight phase in March.  |
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.  |
National Defense August 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Woes End DHS Plans to Expand Drone Fleet The Department of Homeland Security had plans as late as last year to increase its fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles to two dozen aircraft by 2016, but tight federal budgets has capped their numbers at 10.  |
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons |
Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts.  |
National Defense April 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Army Pushes Forward With Troubled Scout Helicopter Despite a string of delays and billions of dollars in cost increases, the Army has regained confidence in its ARH-70A armed reconnaissance helicopter.  |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.  |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Global Hawk Costs Soar Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts.  |
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army on a Fast Track to Build its Own High-Tech Air Force The Army soon will begin deploying larger quantities of remotely piloted high-tech surveillance aircraft.  |
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget Cuts, Fuels Costs Could Spur Military Spending on Virtual Training The Air Force estimates it could save about $1.7 billion over five years by reducing flying hours by 5 percent and shifting more of its pilot and crew training to simulators.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette |
What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.  |
National Defense March 2012 Dan Parsons |
Air Force Trades Quantity For Quality The Air Force will cut airmen and ditch some underperforming and unwanted aircraft, focusing instead on purchasing fewer but more capable new models in order to bridge a years-long investment gap, officials said.  |
National Defense June 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shine Starting to Wear Off Unmanned Aircraft Unmanned aviation has enjoyed a decade-long honeymoon, during which the military poured billions of dollars into new drone fleets and the media ballyhooed their deadly precision in combat.  |
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.  |
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Unmanned Aircraft `Roadmap' Reflects Changing Priorities More attention needs to be paid to the technology supporting the Defense Department's unmanned aircraft systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller |
The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.  |