In September, the service’s 99th Contracting Squadron solicited offers for the $185 million SABER contract to support ...
The U.S. Air Force has started soliciting proposals for a recompete of the Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirement, or SABER, contract with a potential value of $120 million. Simplified ...
America’s first supersonic jet did not excel as a fighter and had beastly accident rate—but it still pioneered revolutionary new technologies and tactics, and ended up doing much of the grunt work ...
On October 14, 1947, an orange-painted Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Though the rocket-powered X-1 was an experimental design, ...