Budget
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Budget
DARPA Reaching Challenging RF Frequencies With Vacuum Electronic Devices
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is making progress toward reaching a challenging portion of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum with a pair of programs involving vacuum electronic devices […]
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Air Force
Air Force Expands DEAMS To Additional Four Bases
The Air Force earlier this month fielded its controversial Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System (DEAMS) to four additional locations with a goal of expanding DEAMS capability to all active, […]
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Budget
HASC Takes on DoD Acquisition Policy With Hearing to Kick Off Reform Effort
The House Armed Services Committee will tackle a defense acquisition reform effort, led by committee vice chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.), which may include some […]
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Budget
House Panel Approves Bills On TSA Acquisition, Cyber Workforce, Critical Infrastructure R&D
The House Homeland Security Committee yesterday marked up and unanimously approved a series of bills aimed at improving the acquisition process at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), assessing the cyber […]
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Budget
B61 Nuclear Bomb Superior To B83 For Future Investment, Kehler Says
While the B83 nuclear gravity bomb could accomplish the same tasks as the B61, the B61 is the better investment for future United States nuclear deterrence, the head of the […]
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Air Force
Boeing, Lockheed Martin Teaming For Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber
Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Friday they’ll team to pursue the Air Force’s next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) program with Boeing acting as the prime contractor and […]
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Air Force
CSBA: If Historical Trends Applied, Defense Budget Would Drop to $415 Billion In Drawdown
Pentagon officials and many lawmakers agree that constrained spending due to sequestration cuts is harmful to military readiness and to the defense industrial base, but that spending level actually represents […]
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Air Force
DoD, Pratt & Whitney Sign $508 Million Contract For Next Batch Of F-35 Engines
The Defense Department and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Wednesday signed a $508 million contract modification for the sixth lot of F135 propulsion systems for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, […]
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Budget
First New Boomer Could Be Delayed Two Years Amid Budget Turmoil, Admiral Warns
Continued sequestration and spending bills based on previous year levels could halve the amount of money required in fiscal 2014 to ramp up toward production of the first ship in […]
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Budget
Declining Domestic Industrial Base Will Hurt U.S. National Security Advantage, Smith Says
If the United States’ defense industrial base can’t compete with its foreign competitors, then the United States will lose a significant national security advantage, the ranking member of the House […]