Pentagon

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) has drafted a base realignment and closure (BRAC) bill that he plans to introduce early next week, according to a […]

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) wants an explanation from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) about […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] will increase profit margins on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter while decreasing the per-aircraft price tag amid high profile pressure from President Donald Trump to contain costs on the […]

After a lengthy hiatus in modernization spending, a ‘starving’ Pentagon is ill suited to absorb a cash windfall under the Trump Administration, according to defense analysts. Funding for new defense […]

Boosting the military’s size and budget was a structural element of President Donald Trump’s campaign platform, but there is little agreement on how to pay for the unspecified increases now […]

Donald Trump was inducted as the 45th United States president on Friday and the Senate voted to confirm both retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as defense secretary and retired […]

The Pentagon needs to deprioritize easy acquisition performance metrics like cost and schedule performance in favor of whether a program will maximize the military’s combat capability, according to the outgoing […]

Pentagon official James “Jimmy” MacStravic is expected to replace outgoing Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall on a temporary basis, a department spokesman said Jan. 18. MacStravic, who currently serves under […]

The Pentagon’s outgoing acquisition czar, Frank Kendall, said Tuesday he’s nervous about a trend toward rapid acquisition, which he called high risk and low quality. Kendall said an example of […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is close to a new deal with the Defense Department on a new batch of F-35s, according to a company statement. The statement said Lockheed Martin CEO […]