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The Defense Department is setting “affordability caps” on programs as part of its Better Buying Power initiative to help strengthen the Pentagon’s acquisition force. “What are we willing to pay […]

Another operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM is scheduled for Thursday morning between 6:01 a.m. and 12:01 p.m. EDT from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to the Air […]

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite prototype communicated with Raytheon’s [RTN] GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) for the first time in August during a series of […]

The Air Force completed the first unmanned QF-16 full scale aerial target flight earlier this month, starting a two-year process to phase out the QF-4 aerial target. Two Air Force […]

The Bell Helicopter-Boeing [BA] tandem that develops the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey helped create an air filter-like device that could “double or triple” the lives of V-22 engines by filtering out […]

Exelis [XLS] said yesterday its work developing the navigation payload for the Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite system has resolved “most issues,” one week after the […]

The Defense Department has received guidance from the Office of Management and Budget to “review and update our plan” to prepare for a government shutdown, Pentagon spokesman George Little told […]

The Air Force successfully test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM Sunday from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to a service statement. The Air Force said it will next test launch […]

The Air Force and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), major stakeholders in the Minuteman III follow-on ICBM study, need to better coordinate their efforts to provide cost estimates for […]

With plans to shrink in size, the Marine Corps will remain capable of acting in a major combat operation but there will be some limitations, and will potentially be unable […]