Defense Watch

Kaine Challenger. Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain, has filed paperwork to run for the Republican nomination to represent Virginia in the U.S. Senate. Cao is the latest Republican to […]

Norway FMS. The State Department on June 28 approved a potential $293 million foreign military sale with Norway for up to 580 RTX-built GBU-53/B air-launched, precision-guided glide bombs. The new […]

Replenishment Bill. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have introduced a new bill that would amend DoD’s emergency acquisition authorities to allow […]

X-Bow Bolt Launch. X-Bow Systems last week said it completed the second successful launch of its Bolt rocket, the first vehicle in the company’s new suite of modular boost solid […]

Sentinel Supply Chain Mitigations. U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has told Congress that the service faces a challenge in ensuring that the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel meets its initial […]

BALTOPS 2023. The 52nd NATO Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2023 maritime exercise is set to start in Tallinn, Estonia on June 4, lasting through June 16. The alliance’s primary Baltic region […]

Berger: Change COCOMS? Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger said he thinks it is time to look at changing the structure of combatant commands (COCOMS) given changes since the current structure […]

Fourth Frigate. The Navy awarded Fincantieri Marinette Marine $526 million on May 18 to exercise an option for the detail design and construction of the fourth Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, FFG-65. […]

Advantage China. A Navy official on May 11 told a House panel part of the reason China’s military shipbuilding capability is so much larger, when it comes to pure numbers, […]

Nuclear Command and Control. U.S. Air Force Gen. Thomas Bussiere, the head of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), says that “we are in the beginning steps” of AFGSC’s nuclear […]