Pentagon
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Air ForcePentagon May Award Performance-Based Logistics Contract for F-35 This Year
DoD may award a five-year Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contract for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter this year, if the program is able to meet conditions set out in the […]
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PentagonBiden Says Objects Shot Down Likely Not Surveillance Assets, Cites Improving Detection Capacity
President Biden said Thursday “nothing right now suggests” the three unidentified high-altitude objects the U.S. military shot down recently were surveillance capabilities, and may have likely been balloons for weather […]
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PentagonFirst AIM-9X Missile Fired At Object Over Lake Huron Missed, Officials Detail Debris Recovery Updates
The first AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from an F-16 fighter jet on Sunday to take down an unidentified high-altitude object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed the target, a top […]
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PentagonRadar Enhancements May Explain Uptick In Detection Of Objects In U.S. Airspace, Officials Say
U.S. officials have said the uptick in detection of high-altitude objects intruding into U.S. airspace, to include three such objects shot down since Friday, may be due to recent radar […]
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PentagonU.S. Military Shoots Down High-Altitude Object Off The Coast Of Alaska
The U.S. military on Friday shot down another high-altitude object that crossed into territorial airspace, taking it out off the coast of Alaska with a Raytheon Technologies [RTX]-built AIM-9X Sidewinder […]
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CongressTester Wants FY ‘24 Budget To Bolster Airspace Detection, Presses DoD On Chinese Balloon Decisions
The Senate’s top defense appropriator has said he wants the fiscal year 2024 budget to include funding and plans to help the Pentagon avoid future intrusions into U.S. airspace following […]
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PentagonChinese Balloon Was Part Of Larger Surveillance Program, Pentagon Says
The Chinese high-altitude spy balloon the U.S. shot down over the weekend and several similar incursions in recent years are part of a larger surveillance program run by Beijing, a […]
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PentagonChinese Balloon Situation Highlights ‘Domain Awareness Gap,’ NORAD Chief Says
The head of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon that passed across the U.S., and similar balloon incidents that went undetected in recent years, […]
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PentagonNORTHCOM Chief Details Use Of AIM-9X On Chinese Surveillance Balloon, Ongoing Debris Recovery
The head of U.S. Northern Command said the Raytheon Technologies [RTX]-built AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from an F-22 fighter aircraft presented the safest and most effective option for taking out […]
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PentagonDARPA Program Explores Possibility of Scaling Up Quantum Computers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program is exploring the costs and benefits of accelerating the development and scaling up of quantum […]
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