Pentagon
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CongressMattis Backs F-35, Noncommittal On LRSO
President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee backed the F-35 during his Senate nomination hearing Thursday, but was noncommittal toward the Air Force’s next-generation nuclear cruise missile, one of the service’s […]
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PentagonCarter Stresses Readiness Of Defense Department To Seamlessly Transition While Conducting Global Mission
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Jan. 10 called a meeting of the Defense Department Senior Leadership Council to take stock of where U.S. national security stands before his looming […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Predicts Further F-35 Delays
The Pentagon’s chief weapon tester predicts the F-35 program might not start initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) until late 2018 at the earliest and 2020 at the latest. In […]
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PentagonDefense Innovation Board Expects To Return Under Trump
The chief of the Defense Department’s newly formed Defense Innovation Board (DIB) expects to return under President-elect Donald Trump. “We have every reason to believe it will continue,” Alphabet [GOOGL] […]
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Congress
If Confirmed, Mattis Will Resign From GD Board And Sell Off Stock
Ahead of his confirmation hearing Thursday to be the next Secretary of Defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has committed to resigning from the board of a major arms manufacturer […]
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Air ForceIn Farewell Memo, Carter Outlines Eight Years Of Defense Department Accomplishments
In a lengthy 11th-hour memo to President Barack Obama, outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out an argument that the U.S. military is in better shape than it was eight […]
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CongressSenator: Trump’s Tweets Could Hurt F-35 Industrial Base
A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged Jan. 3 that President-elect Donald Trump’s critical tweets about the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 are sowing uncertainty in the fighter jet’s […]
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Air ForceLockheed Exec., Former DoD Senior Civilian Meet With Trump Transition Team
A Lockheed Martin [LMT] senior executive and a former civilian official of both the Navy and Air Force met Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at Trump Tower in New […]
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Air ForceGovernment Could Again Force Lockheed Martin To Accept F-35 Price For Lot 10 Aircraft
Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the F-35 Joint Program Office have reverted to the “elemental level” in negotiations over the cost of the 10th lot of aircraft to avoid deadlock and the […]
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CyberParsons Wins Cyber Command Support Contract
The Parsons company Secure Mission Solutions won the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Capabilities Development (C4CD) Support Services task order (TO) to support U.S. Cyber Command, the company said Dec. […]