Textron [TXT] won the competition on Jan. 25 to produce new T-54A Multi-Engine Training System (METS) aircraft to replace the aging Beech Aircraft T-44C Pegasus training aircraft. The older fleet of 54 T-44Cs was built by Beech Aircraft, which is now a subsidiary of T-54A winner Textron. These ...

The Army’s top acquisition official on Wednesday said he expects there will be “several big awards” in February and March related to replenishing stockpiles of equipment sent to Ukraine. Doug Bush, the Army’s assistant secretary of acquisition, logistics and technology, also told reporters ...

The latest annual report by the Pentagon’s top weapons tester said while the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) systems have largely demonstrated several capabilities the biggest challenge is the need for realistic and emerging threat representations in testing the interceptors. The fiscal year ...

The House Armed Services Committee’s new chairman on Wednesday announced the panel’s full slate of subcommittee leaders as well as the GOP members picked to sit on the committee for the new Congress.  “I am excited to have 11 new and dynamic members joining the House Armed Services ...

North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under AFRL’s Bandit program, which seeks to develop fifth-generation drones to ...

The Navy’s top weapons tester warned the service’s proposed schedule for operational testing of the new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet centerline pod sensor with a fire control system does not allow much time to find and solve problems with the system before the planned start of initial testing. The ...