Pentagon
By Vivienne Machi
@VivienneMachi
The White House formally submitted Mark Esper’s nomination to become the next secretary of defense July 15, one day before the Army secretary is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC). The Defense Department confirmed Monday afternoon that Esper’s nomination had ...
The White House formally submitted Mark Esper’s nomination to become the next secretary of defense July 15, one day before the Army secretary is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC). The Defense Department confirmed Monday afternoon that Esper’s nomination ...
France’s Naval Group launched the first of six new French Navy nuclear-powered attack submarines during a ceremony on Friday, presided over by French president Emmanuel Macron. During the July 12 ceremony, the company launched the Suffren, which will be the lead vessel in the new Barracuda-class ...
The State Department approved a potential $401 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Germany for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhanced (MSE) missiles. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the sale on July 12. Germany requested 50 PAC-3 MSEs ...
Raytheon [RTN] on Monday said it has received a contract worth nearly $110 million to provide a cyber security operations center for a country in the Middle East North Africa Region. The customer wasn’t disclosed. Raytheon said its support and services under the contract will include ...
A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the Pentagon in Oracle’s [ORCL] legal challenge to the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing program, clearing the way for a late August contract award to either Amazon [AMZN] Web Services or Microsoft ...
The House on Friday approved its version of a defense policy bill that like the Senate legislation would require the Defense Department to study and report to Congress the establishment of at least one strategic port in the Arctic but unlike the Senate its measure doesn’t direct the creation of ...
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) “strongly objects” to a $42 million reduction to re-scope a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA flight test in the House’s FY 2020 defense authorization bill. The OMB issued a Statement of Administration Policy on July 9 listing its ...
