The F-35 Joint Program Office has delivered a modernized sustainment tracking system to 14 U.S. and European bases, completing the first phase of the rollout for the replacement of its glitch-prone predecessor.

A Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter converted Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force.

Lockheed Martin’s entrant in the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y “bridge tanker” program would be assembled in Mobile, Alabama, and missionized Marietta, Georgia, should it win the award, and the company expects requirements to be outlined in a draft request for proposals (RFP) this year.

Austria’s Diamond Aircraft has decided to adopt a Pratt & Whitney Canada turboprop engine for its DART tandem-seat training aircraft, after what the manufacturer described as an adjustment of its development program. 

Already cooperating with the U.S. Air Force through its Agility Prime program, startup Beta Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Army to support flight testing of its Alia electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

A Middle Eastern air force has conducted the first deployments of Yates Electrospace’s Silent Arrow GD-2000 unmanned cargo glider to take place outside the U.S., the company announced Jan. 31.

Lockheed Martin has delivered the first F-16 from a year-old depot opened in Greenville, South Carolina.

The U.S. Air Force has launched a market survey for a newly christened F-35 Adaptive Engine Replacement program, disclosing the first details of a still-unfunded proposal to replace the Pratt & Whitney F135 within five years of a possible contract award in the first quarter of fiscal 2024.