Defense Watch

SASC NDAA Schedule. The Senate Armed Services Committee will consider the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act in mid-June, the panel’s leadership has announced. SASC’s work on the next […]

Greece/UH-60s. Greece on April 5 officially signed a letter of acceptance (LOA) to move ahead on its plan to buy 35 UH-60M Black Hawks. The LOA follows the U.S. government’s […]

Army Ammo. The Army has selected General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Northrop Grumman for a new $3.05 billion contract to manufacture medium caliber training cartridges, the Pentagon announced […]

SpaceX Contract with DoD for Ukraine. Last summer came news that Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, had signed a contract in June with DoD to continue providing the company’s […]

HII UUVs. HII unveiled its new REMUS 130 unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at the Oceanology International 2024 conference on March 12. The company said it is built on the same […]

Fixed-Price Versus Cost-Plus. U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter says that the service will continue to rely on fixed price contracts for mature production programs and that the real […]

Delivering Ground Before Launch. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has said that the ground elements of space programs have traditionally come with big headaches. Assistant Secretary of the Air […]

Rheinmetall Ammo. Germany’s Rheinmetall said on Feb. 17 it plans to open a new ammunition plant in Ukraine. Rheinmetall and an unnamed “Ukrainian partner company” have established a new joint […]

F-35 International Backfill. On Feb. 15, Sheila Kahyaoglu, a defense/aerospace equity analyst at Jefferies, wrote that Lockheed Martin “has a backlog/commitments for nearly 3,500 F-35s with the program generating about […]

USAF Munition Multi-Years. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says that multi-years “incentivize” industry production line investments and give companies “some assurance that they’re gonna have funding for continued acquisition […]