The Pentagon has concluded its new Global Posture Review (GPR) assessing how its forces and resources are deployed around the world, to include enhancing infrastructure in Australia and Guam with the department’s increased focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Mara Karlin, the acting deputy under ...

The Pentagon has failed its fourth consecutive audit, according to results detailed Tuesday, while the department’s chief financial officer said he sees “steady progress” in the effort to reach an eventual full clean opinion.  Mike McCord, the Pentagon comptroller, noted eight of the 24 ...

Providing affordable sustainment was a key goal for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program before Lockheed Martin [LMT] beat out Boeing [BA] to win the JSF contract on Oct. 26, 2001. On April 11, 2000, the Pentagon’s Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated a Joint Operational ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill includes a provision by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that would require defense contractors to disclose all diversity training materials–a policy that may pose implementation problems for the ...

Pratt & Whitney [RTX] has been investing internal funds in an Enhanced Engine Package (EEP) for the company’s F135 engine for all three variants of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II–a package that could save tens of billions of dollars in engine life cycle costs and ...

The Pentagon’s lead technology official on Monday detailed the department’s plans to hold a new annual joint experimentation event beginning in fiscal year 2023 that will test out emerging technologies to address joint warfighting capability gaps. Heidi Shyu, the under secretary of defense for ...