Budget

The Defense Department should financially compete long-range hypersonic cruise missiles with ballistic and boost-glide systems if it determines there is no potential role for long-range hypersonic cruise missiles distinct from […]

Iraq had nearly $7 billion in pending Foreign Military Sales (FMS) with the United States at the end of fiscal year 2012, but it is unclear whether Congress will approve […]

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has ordered an assessment of the budget and resource challenges facing the Navy and Marine Corps, the service said Friday. Mabus has directed the office of […]

The United States needs to improve its foreign nation stabilization and reconstruction efforts as they are both “disorganized” and “grossly underfunded” aspects of its national security architecture, the Pentagon’s special […]

The Air Force yesterday successfully launched the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) NROL-65 satellite yesterday around 2:08 p.m. EST from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The launch took place on one of United […]

Raytheon [RTN] will perform in October an over-the-air demonstration of its Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) software running on terminal hardware, an important milestone for the company, according […]

The Air Force awarded eight additional companies pieces of a potential $6.9 billion contract known as NETCENTS-2 that could make providing innovative information technology (IT) products and capabilities easier and […]

The Defense Department and F-35 engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney reached an agreement in principle for a sixth lot of F135 engines, including the first propulsion systems for international partners […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Although Boeing [BA] will complete its Global Positioning System IIF (GPS IIF) contract this year, a key executive said last week the company will continue to […]

Beechcraft is “very close” to a deal to sell its AT-6 light attack aircraft as part of a foreign military sale (FMS) through the Air Force, a key executive told […]