Month: May 2011

The defense policy bill the House passed yesterday pushes back on President Barack Obama’s plans to require contractors to disclose political contributions and end development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter […]

Britain’s BAE Systems recently said it has agreed to sell its Composite Structures business unit to EnCore Composites Holdings, Inc., for $32.5 million in cash. The deal is expected to […]

Just days before the last U.K. troops left Iraq, U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox said a strong economy is a national security requirement and an affordable defense […]

Officials are ready to proceed with the second phase of sea testing on its San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious ships, after successfully wrapping up the first half of those sea trials […]

There is progress in Nepal toward implementing a 2006 peace agreement ending its civil war though the Constituent Assembly working to do so is set to expire May 28, a […]

Despite ongoing efforts inside the Pentagon to trim roughly $4 billion in spending across the services and the department writ large over the next decade, the Marine Corps likely will […]

U.S. defense sales to India have greatly increased over the past decade, with more than $30 billion still to come in military acquisition, according to a State Department official. “They […]

  The Army’s modernization priority, a network to connect soldiers to each other and their equipment, will eventually include the other services and coalition allies.   “Ultimately the network will […]

Agreeing with Transportation Security Administrator (TSA) John Pistole’s desire to explore risk-based passenger screening at airport checkpoints, House appropriators are recommending that the agency develop and test a trusted traveler […]

A Senate panel sounded alarms yesterday about test failures with the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, as a senior Pentagon official sought to assure it the national-missile-defense effort is on […]