The U.S. Air Force is to move to using Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As for organic adversary air training for its fighter pilots at Nellis AFB, Nev., after the service declined to renew a contract with Florida-based Draken International for such training. Draken has won several ADAIR training ...

Navy officials on Wednesday admitted the Navy’s current plan to procure the future America-class amphibious assault ship, LHA-10, about a decade after LHA-9 would increase costs and impact the industrial base. The Navy’s FY ‘23 budget request seeks funds to finish funding procurement of LHA-9, ...

If funding for next-generation checkpoint baggage scanners is maintained at current requested levels, it will be another 14 or so years before the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) completes the purchase and installation of these systems, the agency’s top official said on Wednesday. “ ...

It will take all summer to finalize a plan aimed at hastening construction of a key nuclear-weapon-component factory that has fallen behind schedule in South Carolina, a Pentagon official said Tuesday in a congressional hearing. It is nearly the end of the annual budget-hearing season in Washington, ...

A new facility for manufacturing nuclear-weapon secondary stages will not be completed until August 2026: eight months later than expected, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) told Senators Wednesday in a hearing. Bechtel National, under contract to the Bechtel-led site ...

LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency (SDA), is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I’m not standing here today giving you answers,” he told an audience of satellite industry executives at the CyberLEO ...