Air Force

Boeing [BA] and the Air Force anno8unced yesterday that on Sept. 19 their Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft damaged a moving ground vehicle, completing ATL’s first air-to-ground, high-power laser engagement […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense appropriator said he met with Japanese and Air Force officials this week to help the foreign nation figure out if it would buy Lockheed […]

By Emelie Rutherford Defense authorizers unveiled yesterday a final Pentagon policy bill that kills a previous House attempt to continue production of the F-22 jet fighter the Obama administration opposes […]

By Emelie Rutherford House and Senate negotiators plan to announce today authorization for continuing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s second engine is in their compromise Pentagon authorization bill, a move […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate passed a $626 billion fiscal year 2010 Pentagon appropriations bill last night by a 93-7 margin after rejecting an attempt to delete from it 10 […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate neared final passage of the defense appropriations bill last night after accepting amendments including one requiring the Pentagon report to Congress on ground-based interceptor missiles. […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers continued debating the Pentagon’s two budget bills yesterday, hashing out whether to include controversial funding for C-17 cargo aircraft and a second engine for the F-35 […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate’s lead appropriator said last Friday he hopes the final defense appropriations bill being readied for the White House will fund the F-35’s second engine program […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senior lawmakers said yesterday they hope to finish work on the two Pentagon funding bills by the start of fiscal year 2010 next week, though they acknowledged […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon, in a second round of appeals to defense authorization legislation, is pushing back on lawmakers’ cuts to its requests for a new Humvee-replacement vehicle, ship […]