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Senate Skeptical Of F-35 Sale To UAE Despite White House Push "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if Israel's the only country in the Middle East that has F-35s, that selling it to someone else no longer produces that qualitative military edge," Sen. Bob Menedez said.

AFWERX Seeks Next Breakthrough Tech Market For Investment "I think we need something like a PEO that is wholly focused on commercial enterprise," says Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper.

SIA Calls For Space Traffic Rules ASAP SIA says there could be as many as 107,671 satellites on orbit by 2029. There are now slightly fewer than 3,000.

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence The Army's future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.

Are The Days Of Manned Fighters REALLY Numbered? The Observe and Orient steps of the OODA Loop are the heart and soul of dogfighting—the two most critical elements in the OODA sequence. No system in the world can touch a human's ability to capture and process those tasks.

Air Force Eyes 'Autonomous Tanker' For KC-46 Follow-On: Roper "One of those next strategic questions for the Air Force is going to be: can you defend a tanker against an onslaught of fighters, who know that every tanker you kill is like killing a lot of fighters or bombers or drones that it supports?" says Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper.

Picking 1st ABMS Capabilities A Top Issue At Air Force Corona The technologies that allowed a tracked howitzer to shoot down a cruise missile in the Sept. 3 ABMS On Ramp was "a Sputnik or Alpha-Go moment where AI did something that could not have been done otherwise," says Will Roper.

Space Force-NASA Accord Highlights Cooperation Beyond Earth Orbit US discovery and exploitation of rare earth minerals from the Moon and asteroids "could change the balance of power on Earth," enthused NASA Administration Jim Bridenstine.

NGI Is The System The Nation Needs Now [Sponsored] To return GMD to a true deterrent, MDA must choose a partner with a track record of delivering across complex never fail missions. The nation deserves a partner who can leverage hit to kill technology, space programs, and strategic ballistic missiles capabilities and use them to modernize our missile defense in the face of an ever-persistent threat.

AFRL Satellite To Track Up To The Moon; Space Force-NASA Tout Cooperation "If you look at the orbits of the stuff that's going around the Moon, It looks like a drunken sailor wandering around as compared to the orbits that we're used to describing closer to the Earth," AFRL's Col. Eric Felt says.

The B-52 Is Aiming For Its Seventh Decade Of Service; The USAF Has New Engine Requirements To Make It Possible [Sponsored]

In this Viewpoint from Rolls-Royce North America, Craig McVay, senior vice president of strategic campaigns and retired Marine Corps fixed-wing aviator, discusses how the company is bringing advanced technology and support to the USAF B-52 re-engining program.

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