Defense Watch

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 […]

Work Retires. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work received a “clap-out” on Friday, bidding him farewell as he departs the Pentagon. Work will remain as the Pentagon’s Number 2 official […]

F-35 Contract. Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $5.6 billion contract to build 91 more F-35s for the U.S. military, the Defense Department announced late July 7. The 11th low-rate initial production […]

Congressional Recess. The last week of June was a busy one for defense on Capitol Hill, as three panels – the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and the House […]

Many Markups. Three of the four congressional defense panels plan to mark up their respective annual defense bills during the last week in June. The House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee […]