Budget

The Pentagon is reducing the number of furlough days civilian employees must take, thanks to savings in other areas of its budget and permission it received from Congress to reprogram […]

A new, easy-to-carry freshwater purifier that could give Marines and first responders access to clean water wherever they go successfully completed its first operational test recently. Funded by the Office […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed their Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) demos for the Air Force, the last major events prior to an anticipated $1.3 billion award […]

President Barack Obama said last week he intends to nominate SAIC [SAI] executive Deborah James as the next Air Force secretary. James is currently president of the technology and engineering […]

The Air Force said Wednesday it awarded BAE Systems an eight year, $535 million contract for Minuteman III ICBM sustainment. The Air Force said three offers were received for the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said Wednesday it won a high-profile competition an analyst valued at exceeding $2 billion to upgrade the radars of both the United States’ and Taiwan’s F-16s fighter […]

The No. 2 Pentagon official said he is worried about the defense industrial base after reviewing the military’s future funding options. Senior defense officials told a House panel Thursday that […]

NASA successfully completed the Space Launch System (SLS) preliminary design review (PDR) Wednesday, a major milestone in its effort to build the United States’ next heavy-lift launch vehicle. Senior experts […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) approved a $516.4 billion Pentagon budget bill Thursday by a 22-8 vote, just as Congress prepared to leave Washington for five weeks and return less […]

B-52 pilots are facing yet another 20 percent cut in flying hours due to sequestration budget cuts after previously enduring a 20 percent reduction over a decade spanning 2000 to […]