Elbit’s Horowitz on USAF Business Opportunities
Raanan Horowitz, the president of CEO of Elbit Systems of America, on US Air Force opportunities for the company and its role in the recent 10-year, $38 billion US military aide package for Israel.
Author Vago Muradian
Kwast on Air University Transformation
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, USAF, the commander of the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., on how the service is transformation military education.
Happy Birthday Nat’l Security Act & US Air Force!
On Sept. 18, 1947 — The National Security Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman…
Preview of AFA’s Annual Conference & Tradeshow
Denise Hollywood, the executive vice president of the Air Force Association, previews this year’s Air, Space & Cyber conference and tradeshow.
Defense Business Board: Focusing a Transition – Challenges Facing the New Administration
Read the Report – The Defense Business Board makes its recommendations for the next president in its latest report, “Focusing a Transition: Challenges Facing the New Administration.”
Exclusive: Michèle Flournoy on the National Security Challenges Facing the Next US Administration
In the first of a three-part exclusive interview, Michèle Flournoy, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and frontrunner to become America’s first female defense secretary if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wins the White House, discusses the security challenges that will face the new US administration, the defense budget outlook and fighting ISIS.
CSIS’ Hunter on Impact of Budget Cuts on R&D Spending
Andrew Hunter, the director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses his new report — “Federal Research and Development Contract Trends and the Supporting Industrial Base, 2000–2015” — that assessed the impact of budget cuts on research and development spending.
Congress Must Approve TPP for US Jobs, Strategic Future in Asia
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have little in common but their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Both presidential candidates have incessantly bashed the largest trade deal in history. To hear them tell it, 12 nations led by Washington spent years negotiating a deal to kill as many US jobs as possible.
On the contrary, TPP will help the US economy and advance Washington’s strategic relationships in Asia at the very time China is working hard to push America from the region.
CSIS: Federal R&D Contract Trends and Supporting Industrial Base
To examine what has happened within the federal R&D contracting portfolio, CSIS utilized its decade plus of experience in analyzing trends in federal contracting. Using federal contract data from the publicly available Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), the full report explains what has happened to federal R&D contracting, and the industrial base that supports those efforts, during the current budget drawdown.
X-15 Rocket Plane Makes First Powered Flight
On Sept. 17, 1959 – North American test pilot A. Scott Crossfield conducted the first powered flight of the company’s X-15 rocket plane after it was dropped from a highly modified Boeing B-52 bomber designated the NB-52A. The X-15 was the world’s first operational spaceplane and designed to allow the US Air Force and NASA to gather data on hypersonic, high-altitude flight. The aircraft was equipped with aerodynamic controls for atmospheric flight and a reaction control system for use at higher altitudes.