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By Emelie Rutherford As Iraq rebuilds its army into a lean force, it will seek additional U.S.-brokered arms sales in the next few years, and will focus on buying the […]

By Emelie Rutherford A former Pentagon official is recommending shifting from focusing on cost-based to time-based metrics for defense acquisition programs, which he said would control costs and schedule slippages […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Bush signed the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill into law on Tuesday, thus leaving the Defense Department (DoD) with both an authorization and appropriations act […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s request to dip its aircraft carrier fleet from 11 to 10 was not granted by Congress in the recently passed fiscal year 2009 defense authorization […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of a naval panel in Congress said they expect to remain focused next session on ensuring more Navy ships are nuclear powered, hammering out the […]

Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment in its surface combatants if it wants to avoid retiring ships too early and to keep pace […]

By Emelie Rutherford The major presidential candidates are welcoming word of a possible Pentagon-brokered $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for the deal to […]