Pentagon

The Navy and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency have for the first time deployed on a ship the block 1B version of the Standard Missile-3 for missile defense, prime contractor […]

Australia is signing up to buy an additional 58 of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for $11.5 billion, raising the total number to 72, the country’s prime minister, […]

The Defense Department and commercial satellite communication (COMSATCOM) providers continue to disagree over how the service should handle future acquisition policy in an era of declining defense spending. A focal […]

The Defense Department reported four programs in its 2013 Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) summary with critical or significant Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breaches to their current or original Acquisition Program Baseline […]

F-35 acquisition costs increased $7.4 billion over a year, up 1.9 percent from last year, according to the 2013 Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) submitted to Congress Thursday. Acquisition costs rose […]

The Defense Department hopes to share its early requirements with industry more often as long as it can find a way to do so without creating misunderstandings, Assistant Secretary of […]

A review commissioned by the Canadian government to evaluate whether the country should proceed with plans to buy Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] F-35 or consider other aircraft in a possible competition […]

The Pentagon will be forced to cut spending on procurement and research and development by more than $66 billion dollars over a four-year beginning in fiscal 2016 if Congress does […]

The Air Force could be on the hook for increased costs in the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program if it has to re-open its contract with prime contractor Boeing [BA] […]

Eleven lawmakers formally asked Secretary of State John Kerry Monday to immediately halt trade of military equipment with Russia, including the acquisition of 22 Mi-17 helicopters that are part of […]