Month: May 2011

By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is preparing to debate next week changes to President Barack Obama’s plans for ending the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s new Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey has notified the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) the service has no unfunded priorities for fiscal year 2012, […]

By Calvin Biesecker Amid disagreements between the Department of Homeland Security and some members of Congress and state and local politicians over whether the nation’s border regions are becoming more […]

By Carlo Munoz The Defense Department’s acquisition shop hopes to have a set of recommended changes to the current slate of rules governing the export of U.S. military hardware overseas […]

By Ann Roosevelt The United States and Romania yesterday said they jointly selected the Deveselu Air Base near Caracal, Romania to host a U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) that […]

Flush with cash from the recent spin-off of its former shipbuilding sector, Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it has repurchased 15.6 million shares of its common stock for $1 billion. […]

By Calvin Biesecker KEYW Corp. [KEYW] Monday evening said it has acquired Forbes Analytic Software, Inc. (FASI), a provider of information technology solutions to the intelligence community, further bolstering KEYW’s […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force is on track for a June award of a light-attack aircraft contract that would provide a new fleet to the nascent Afghan air force. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The first signs of how Congress wants to tweak the Pentagon’s budget proposal emerged yesterday, when the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) unveiled plans to potentially revive […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard on Monday evening released its draft specification for its new class of medium endurance cutters, the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), and still plans to […]