A potentially $6.6 billion three-year sustainment contract award on Sept. 13 to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for its F-35 fighter is a stepping stone to a possible performance-based logistics (PBL) contract revision next year, if the company meets cost per flight hour (CPFH), parts availability and full ...

The Pentagon is “weeks away” from completing its implementation plan for the new Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy, a lead official said on Wednesday. Army Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, the J6 deputy director and head of the JADC2 Cross-Functional Team, said the plan will detail ...

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Wednesday the Pentagon still has to work on industrial base concerns related to manufacturing capacity for aggressive advancement of hypersonic weapon capabilities and supply chain resiliency for microelectronics. On hypersonics, specifically, Hicks said ...

The Defense Department last Friday said it has formed a new working group that will examine ongoing visibility challenges into its supply chains, assess supply chain resiliency, and create actions to limit threats and challenges to its supply chains. “We are working to solve a problem that took ...

The Defense Department in September expects to begin soliciting for the next increment of its authoritative biometric database, which will transition to the cloud and add new capabilities, a department official said in August. The Request for Proposal for the Biometric Enabling Capability (BEC) ...

U.S. military forces intercepted a rocket using the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) system during an early Monday morning attack aimed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, occurring as withdrawal operations in Afghanistan were set to conclude later in the day A total of five ...