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InternationalSenate Panel Votes To Block F-35 Transfers To Turkey
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has approved a proposal to block the transfer of F-35s to Turkey and ultimately end that country’s participation in the U.S.-led fighter jet program. The measure, […]
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UncategorizedSenator Urges More Scrutiny Of Arms Exports
A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged his fellow lawmakers May 22 to increase their scrutiny of arms exports to minimize the United States’ role in causing civilian casualties. Sen. […]
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BudgetSenate Panel Trims F-35 Buy Due To Sustainment Concerns
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has approved a fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill that would trim purchases of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and Air Force KC-46A tankers, citing problems […]
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Air ForceAir Force Hikes Funding For New Space Consortium
The U.S. Air Force’s new Space Enterprise Consortium, which promotes the development of industry prototypes, is getting a five-fold increase in funding because the service is pleased with its results, […]
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Air ForceOMB Blasts House Proposal To Replace Air Force’s JSTARS Planes With New Aircraft
The Trump administration “objects” to a provision in the House version of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill that would require the Air Force to replace its aging E-8C […]
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Air ForceOMB Blasts House Proposal To Replace Air Force’s JSTARS Planes With New Aircraft
The Trump administration “objects” to a provision in the House version of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill that would require the Air Force to replace its aging E-8C […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Launch Challenge Program Nears Releasing RFI For Potential Payloads
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will soon issue a request for information on commercial and government payloads it could use in an upcoming launch competition, an agency official […]
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Air ForceGAO Rejects Sikorsky’s Protest Of Air Force Huey Replacement Program
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rebuffed a pre-contract-award protest that Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin [LMT] company, had filed over the Air Force’s UH-1N Huey helicopter replacement program. The “GAO […]
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CongressSenator Urges More Scrutiny Of Arms Exports
A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged his fellow lawmakers May 22 to increase their scrutiny of arms exports to minimize the United States’ role in causing civilian casualties. Sen. […]
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SpaceNASA Set To Launch Water-Watching Satellites
NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) say they are on track to launch a pair of Earth-observing satellites May 22 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from […]