Pentagon

The Pentagon’s acquisition chief will not declare full rate production (FRP) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by the end of this year, and a Milestone C decision could instead […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture on the motion to proceed with two fiscal year 2020 bills Oct. 17, opening up the possibility of the Senate voting next […]

The Pentagon’s relatively new Space Development Agency (SDA) is continuing its planned efforts related to building new space-based sensor layers over the next five years as Congress works through fiscal […]

On January 1, 2020, all aircraft flying in controlled airspace will be required to equip ADS-B Out transponders, which constantly broadcast location and identifying information. The military has concerns about […]

The Pentagon on Friday approved the deployment of additional troops and air and missile defense capabilities to Saudi Arabia, after receiving a request to bolster defense to deter further Iranian […]

Fiscal year 2019 will have been a stable year for U.S. foreign military sales with $68 billion worth of cases – should all approved deals come through – with contractors […]

The Defense Department’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO CBRND) has streamlined its organization to be more efficient, and better align investments to meet […]

U.S. Transportation Command sees potential in the way commercial artificial intelligence solutions can help it leverage vast amounts of data and improve its logistics operations, but is still in the […]

Tensions are building — or perhaps have boiled over — between Boeing and Northrop Grumman on potentially $100 billion worth of work, over five decades, replacing and maintaining the ground-based leg of […]

The Defense Department on Sept. 30 awarded Pratt & Whitney [UTX] a $2.1 billion contract modification that includes new F135 engines for the department’s three F-35 Joint Strike Fighter variants. […]