Defense Daily

The United Kingdom has requested continued participation in the Boeing [BA] Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership, which consists of support to its fleet of six C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft, worth […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to incorporate a new approach to buying everything from ships to information technology, it is also looking over its acquisition workforce, determining what […]

By Ann Roosevelt ATK [ATK] continues modernizing the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., even as the plant produces about 1.4 billion cartridges a year as the primary […]

By Calvin Biesecker United Technologies Corp. [UTX] yesterday posted solid first quarter financial results and affirmed its forecast for higher sales and earnings this year despite weakness in some areas […]

The Lockheed Martin [LMT] Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Site (AMF) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) team has awarded a contract worth up to $140 million to General Dynamics [GD] to […]

By Emelie Rutherford Two senior Pentagon officials said they are working to bolster ballistic missile defense fielding in the near term, an effort that could double the number of planned […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate will wait and see what the House does on a proposal to merge fiscal year 2008 and 2009 supplemental war-funding measures into one large bill, […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully launched an Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) Unitary missile from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher equipped with a Universal Fire Control System (UFCS) […]

The Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program said last week it successfully completed the elimination of the final SS-24 ICBM and supporting system components in Perm, Russia. Delegations from […]

By Calvin Biesecker Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Chief Kip Hawley said on Tuesday that his agency this year will order another 580 Advanced Technology (AT) X-Ray machines and at least […]