Air Force

By Emelie Rutherford A House panel is continuing to fight back Pentagon attempts to take away already-pegged-for Army vehicle upgrades. The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) in an Aug. 10 […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] is touting a new 3G broadband network for the military that will enable any government approved, commercially available smart phone to link in and […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers denied the Pentagon’s request to decrease existing funding for aircraft programs for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and bombers. Defense Comptroller Robert Hale sought permission from Congress […]

By Emelie Rutherford The overall size of the defense budget likely needs to be increased to modernize equipment, the heads of an independent panel that critiqued the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House, via a 308-114 vote, granted final congressional approval yesterday to the long-delayed war-funding bill, after lawmakers agreed to remove much of the domestic spending tacked on to […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key House panel approved a $523.9 billion Pentagon spending bill yesterday with funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine, a move that could bode […]

By Geoff Fein As the demand from both NASA and the Air Force for solid rocket motors declines, the cost to produce and maintain the Trident II D-5 submarine launched […]

By Emelie Rutherford A Senate budget-writing panel agreed yesterday to cut President Barack Obama’s proposed level of Pentagon funding, and a House committee could do the same thing next week. […]

By Marina Malenic Airbus parent company EADS yesterday filed an 8,800-page proposal to build a new fleet of 179 aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force, a day ahead of […]

By Calvin Biesecker As the military services work to establish full operational capability (FOC) this fall for their newly established cyber commands, achieving real-time situational awareness of threats to their […]