Defense Watch

Fighter Fall. The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal 2024 budget request proposes the divestment of 131 fighter aircraft, including 42 A-10s, 57 F-15 C/Ds, and 32 Block 20 F-22 aircraft while […]

Ukraine Aid. Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairs of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees, respectively, and Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), […]

MDA Has Boost-Phase Intercept? Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director Vice Adm. Jon Hill recently confirmed DoD already has a boost-phase missile defense capability, but would not explain what it entails. […]

Ukraine/Abrams. Doug Bush, the Army’s top acquisition official, reiterated this week the Army is working through plans to get Abrams tanks to Ukraine “as quickly as possible.” Following the U.S.’ […]

Air and Space Forces Symposium. This year’s Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium on March 6-8 in Aurora, Colo., comes as U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles […]

Taiwan Trip. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of new the House Select Committee on China, has urged Congress to address the backlog of Foreign Military Sale cases with Taiwan following […]

GPS III Operational Acceptance. The 2nd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Space Force Base Colo. operationally accepted the Lockheed Martin GPS III Space Vehicle 06 on Jan. 31 after the […]

New HII Sub Facility. HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division broke ground on Feb. 8 on a new facility to help support submarine construction, called the Multi-Class Submarine Production Facility. […]

New Share Buybacks. Northrop Grumman last Thursday announced a new $500 million accelerated share repurchase of its common stock during the second quarter that is incremental to previously planned repurchases. […]

Australia/Black Hawks. Australia on Jan. 18 officially announced it will buy 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, with the deal estimated around $2 billion. Deliveries for the Sikorsky-built helicopters to the […]