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Air ForceGE, Rolls-Royce Look To Align With Acquisition Reformers In Fixed Price Engine Offer
By Marina Malenic and Emelie Rutherford General Electric [GE] and Rolls-Royce are seeking to win over critics of the plan to purchase an alternate engine for the Pentagon’s newest fighter […]
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ArmyUniform Fabric Fracas Signals ‘Buy America’ Concerns In Washington
By Emelie Rutherford Congressional debate over whether to continue importing a foreign fiber for military uniforms exemplifies differing concerns surrounding so-called "buy America" restrictions for Pentagon purchases, defense-industry followers say. And […]
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Air ForceJASSM Testing Beginning Within The Month; AF Optimistic
By Emelie Rutherford The Air Force said last week late-stage testing will begin within the next month on a reliability-challenged cruise missile, which unavoidably will experience a production line shutdown […]
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Air ForceAir Force Analyzing Light-Attack Plane As Iraq Pushes For F-16s
By Emelie Rutherford The Air Force is planning to conduct an analysis of a light-attack aircraft envisioned for potential purchase by Iraq, though that nation has expressed a preference for […]
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Air ForceTanker Contest Set To Resume With Refined Criteria When Congress Returns
By Emelie Rutherford Following previous delays, Air Force officials stood by plans yesterday for releasing a streamlined solicitation for the KC-X aerial-refueling tanker to two industry teams next month. "The […]
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Air ForceSASC Seapower To Reorg Following Loss of Kennedy, Martinez
By Emelie Rutherford A key Navy-focused committee in Congress soon will receive new leadership, following the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Tuesday and retirement of Sen. Mel Martinez […]
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CongressFinal Augustine Report With Constellation Options Faces Slight Delay
By Emelie Rutherford A blue-ribbon panel’s final report to President Obama on NASA’s future, which casts doubt on the viability of the Constellation program, will likely not be released quite […]
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ArmyGovernors Oppose Expanded DoD Authorities In Domestic Disasters
By Ann Roosevelt Creation of a Council of Governors and more discussion are needed before before the Secretary of Defense is granted more authority over reserve forces in responding to […]
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ArmyBrogan: New Mine-Proof Truck Effort Benefitting From MRAP Lessons
By Emelie Rutherford The effort to build an off-road version of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) is benefitting from lessons learned during the highly scrutinized MRAP effort, including modifying […]
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ArmyMine-Shielding Truck Effort May Adjust To Address Uptick In Afghan IED Attacks
By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is waiting to buy any more all-terrain mine-resistant trucks–1,275 more of which now are planned–until an upcoming ground assessment is delivered on the war in […]