Month: July 2023

France’s Safran Group last Friday said it has agreed to acquire the actuation and flight controls business of Collins Aerospace, an operating segment of RTX [RTX], for $1.8 billion in […]

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found that while the Navy Department uses two separate databases to track aircraft availability the newer one is better at predicting actual flying […]

The leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee have reached an agreement to add $13.7 billion in emergency funding for fiscal year 2024 above spending levels set by the debt ceiling […]

As the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel prepares to mark up its version of the fiscal 2024 bill in the next two weeks, the U.S. Air Force is looking to […]

The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Office (JCO) next year plans to conduct a demonstration to counter  warms of small drones and is seeking help with the planning for […]

The Navy awarded Leidos [LDOS] a $36 million contract modification exercising an option to build, test and deliver four engineering development model Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (MUUV). A year ago, […]

Reducing the vulnerability of U.S. satellites and ensuring military forces are able to operate without mission degradation is a continuous task and one that may gain insights from the U.S. […]

The fiscal year 2024 defense policy and spending bills before Congress would provide U.S. Cyber Command with the acquisition, budget, and policy authorities it needs to help solve readiness and […]

The State Department has approved a potential $2.9 billion deal with Germany for the sale of nearly 1,000 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM). The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) […]

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), the co-chairman of the House Electronic Warfare Working Group and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said on July 18 that he is disappointed […]