Defense Watch

Senate Approps Markup. The Senate Appropriations Committee will meet on July 31 to mark up its version of the fiscal year 2026 defense spending bill. The panel’s markup follows the […]

Guetlein Confirmed. The Senate voted to confirm Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein as the reporting program manager for the new Golden Dome missile defense initiative. The Senate approved his position […]

IAM Contract Negotiations. Union workers at Boeing’s defense facilities in the St. Louis region, and its new MQ-25 unmanned aircraft production plant across the Mississippi River in Mascoutah, Ill., have […]

NATO Nuclear Mission. While Pantex said in May that it built the first production B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb almost a year early on the heels of the last B61-12 coming […]

F-47 Strategic Planning Choices. U.S. Air Force leaders are to examine strategic choices on F-47 development by the end of January next year, as done in the first quarter of […]

Parsons Award. Parsons Corporation said on June 16 it has received a four-year, $169.5 million deal from the Army Corps of Engineers to design and build a new Ammonium Nitrate […]

Readying for V-BAT. The Coast Guard is readying three of its National Security Cutters (NSCs) to begin testing and deployment of the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system (UAS) this summer, a […]

Golden Dome Summit Axed. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on June 2 abruptly canceled an industry summit for the Golden Dome air and missile defense initiative. It was set to […]

Battle Management. The Department of the Air Force’s program executive office (PEO) for command, control, communications and battle management (C3BM) may hold another industry day this fall after one on […]

Palantir/Divergent. In a new partnership announced on May 20, Palantir will provide access to Divergent Technologies’ advanced manufacturing system on its Foundry and Warp Speed software platforms. “The partnership provides […]