Pentagon

Though the Pentagon has been able to reduce the unit price of the F-35 over the past couple of years, Air Force Secretary Deborah James believes the F-35’s unit price […]

The F-35 development program that began 15 years ago is better than 90 percent complete but continues to face delays and cost overruns that will push the completion of flight […]

President-elect Donald Trump might focus on managing cost-plus defense development programs as a way to extract better deals for taxpayers, according to an adviser to Trump’s transition team. “I see […]

The revolving door through which senior military leaders pass between retirement and lucrative secondary careers with major defense contractors could cease to spin under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday continued his rhetorical assault on Pentagon spending by tweeting that the cost of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is “out of control” […]

Slashing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is one option to save billions of dollars in the coming decade for efforts to reduce the growing federal deficit, the Congressional […]

The Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program is grappling with how to fuse requirements from different stakeholders involved with the effort with the demand for a common platform, according to a […]

Aside from officially announcing retired Marine Gen. James Mattis as his pick for secretary of defense, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday described with soaring superlatives how he plans to rebuild […]

The Defense Department under Secretary Ash Carter and his deputy Robert Work has established a menu of research and development efforts from which the new administration can choose technologies that […]

Other than commanding combat troops, James Mattis, retired Marine Corps general and President-elect Donald Trump’s likely defense secretary, has served only one stint overseeing Marine combat development and three years on […]