Defense Watch

Sub Deal. General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD] takes home a $5 billion cost-plus-incentive-fee with special incentives contract for the Integrated Product and Process Development design completion for the Columbia-class ballistic […]

SASC Navy. The Senate Armed Services Committee hosts a hearing on Sept. 19 to discuss recent naval incidents with top naval personnel. Witnesses include Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer; […]

F-35 Acquisition. Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter, the new head of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, says he is pursuing “agile acquisition principles” to speed up improvements to the […]

Congress Returns. After a month-long recess, lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill Sept. 5 facing a host of unfinished business, including the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization and appropriations bills […]

Afghan Aviation Support. The Army awarded Leidos Innovation Corp. a $727 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide support for the Afghan Air Force and Special Mission Wing  helicopter and fixed-wing fleets. […]

FlightWave Drone. FlightWave Aerospace Systems, a California-based startup, has introduced the Edge, a small, tri-copter, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft that takes off vertically like a helicopter and flies horizontally like a […]

Afghan A-29s. The Afghan Air Force (AAF), which currently has 12 Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corp. A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft, is expected to receive seven more A-29s by late 2018, as […]

Air Force One Milestone. The Air Force has awarded a contract modification to Boeing to buy two commercial 747-8 planes that will be modified to replace the existing Air Force […]

Defense Authorization. The Senate seems to be in a holding pattern with its fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, […]

Tomahawk Test. The U.S. Navy test fired two Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missiles from new payload tubes on the Virginia­-class USS North Dakota (SSN-784) submarine in an initial test. The test […]