Pentagon
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BudgetIn Budget Speech, Carter Touts New Technology Such as Driverless Boats, Arsenal Plane
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter provided a glimpse into some of the Pentagon’s emerging technologies during his budget preview on Tuesday, discussing capabilities from swarming 3D-printed drones to a targeting kit […]
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Air ForceIn $582.7 Billion FY ’17 Budget Request, Pentagon to Increase Funding for Undersea Warfare, Munitions
The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will call for a topline of $582.7 billion, hewing closely to the levels set in the Bipartisan Budget Agreement made last year. […]
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Air ForceF-35 Entering IOT&E By August 2017 Is Unrealistic, DOT&E Says
The Defense Department’s chief weapons tester believes the F-35 program’s current schedule of completing system development and demonstration (SDD) and entering initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) by August 2017 […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Questions Logic, Legality of DoD’s F-35 Block Buy Approach
The Defense Department’s chief weapons tester questions the logic and legality of the Pentagon’s block buy approach to buying F-35s due to the program’s state of maturity and the law’s […]
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Air ForceProcurement, Modernization Will Cover Most Of Expected Defense Budget Shortfall In FY2017
The Pentagon after releasing its fiscal year 2017 budget on Feb. 9 will find itself needing to come up with $22 billion to cover the difference between its request and […]
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PentagonMDA Successfully Evaluates Alternate Divert Thrusters In GMD Test
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Thursday successfully evaluated performance of alternate divert thrusters for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), according to an agency statement. […]
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PentagonGMD Program To Collect Data In Space For First Time
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program was scheduled to use a Thursday flight test to collect data in space for the first time, according to officials […]
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CyberBattelle Wins $5 Billion Successor Defense Department Cybersecurity Contract
Battelle was awarded a $5 billion five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide technical cybersecurity work for the Defense Technical Information Center Cyber Security and Information Systems Technical […]
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CongressIf Confirmed, Next U.S. Commmander in Afghanistan to Reevaluate Military Presence
The Obama administration’s nominee for the next commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan told lawmakers on Thursday that he would need at least 90 days to evaluate whether the military […]
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Air ForceNext President Will Grapple With Defense Acquisition Bow Wave, Study Finds
After years of stagnant Pentagon budgets, the next presidential administration will face a defense acquisition bow wave in the early 2020s and will need an influx of funding to pay […]