Valerie Insinna

President-elect Donald Trump may have had his meetings with the Lockheed Martin chief executive officer, but he’s not ready to play nice, tweeting on Thursday evening that he could look to Boeing’s Super Hornet as an alternative to the F-35.

The Air Force’s top civilian hinted the service could deploy a number of F-35s to Europe as early as this summer.

Boeing’s T-X trainer candidate took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday.

The root cause of an October F-35B fire was a loose bracket, which — when functioning properly — holds electrical wires away from other components in the weapons bay.

The F-35 program is not “out of control” as President-elect Donald Trump famously tweeted this month, but more can still be done to tamp costs down, the head of the F-35 program office said Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nuclear agenda remains opaque, but current Air Force officials are cautiously optimistic that he will stay the course on nuclear modernization.

US House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Mike Rogers told Defense News he plans in 2017 to spearhead a major reorganization of the way the US government manages space capabilities — yielding changes that are “very disruptive” but ultimately positive.

US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James plans to issue a memo containing new guidance meant to improve sustainment of the launch facilities, make it easier for the service to obtain spare parts and instill a culture of preventative maintenance.

Lockheed Martin’s stock dropped dramatically following Trump’s swipe at the F-35.

With live training alone unable to provide the complex scenarios meant to push the F-35 to its limits, the Air Force is banking on a suite of cutting-edge technologies that will fuse virtual and constructive elements into live exercises.