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The Army’s Aviation Aviation Restructure Initiative (ARI) continues to be a bone of contention as far as moving National Guard AH-64 Apache helicopters to the active component, an issue pursued […]

The impact of a return of sequestration on the services would likely prove to have the biggest effect on special operation forces (SOF), not cuts to its own programs, officials […]

The Air Force and the Defense Department’s acquisition team are working on changing the Pentagon’s launch capability contract with incumbent launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) in response to competition […]

The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the service’s ninth Global Positioning System IIF series satellite (GPS IIF-9) March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral […]

NASA has 10 months of funded schedule reserve on James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as the program enters a challenging phase, key stakeholders testified March 24. NASA Associate Administrator for […]

Sequestration is putting missile defense–both homeland and regional defense–in jeopardy, and could lead to future overmatch, the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told the House Armed Services Committee […]

If sequestration returns in fiscal year 2016, it would impact new programs vital to protecting the nation, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director told the Senate Appropriations defense panel March […]

A key lawmaker vowed to maintain a United States heavy launch capability to avoid a gap between the retirement of United Launch Alliance‘s (ULA) Delta IV rocket and the potential […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) “most definitely” responded to NASA’s second Cargo Resupply Services program (CRS-2), company President and CEO Gwynne Shotwell said March 17. According to a request for […]

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) vowed March 16 to find funding for the Air Force’s commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) “Pathfinder 2” program, which he said was not funded in the service’s […]