Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Sep 04, 2020
From SpaceX’s recent successes to Palantir’s coming public stock offering, newcomers are making noise in A&D, but looks can be deceiving.
Sep 04, 2020
A year-old proposal to reform the U.S. Air Force fighter pilot training pipeline is restructuring its acquisition approach again.
Sep 02, 2020
Researchers find lack of large flakes may give crews false sense of security in snowy takeoffs.
Aug 28, 2020
Sikorsky and Boeing flew Raider and Defiant demonstrators in formation, showcasing potential commonality between FARA and FLRAA.
Aug 28, 2020
Competing for the U.S. Army’s FARA and FLRAA programs, Bell emphasizes the pedigrees of its designs.
Premium Defense Budget, Policy & Operations News
Oct 27, 2022
The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, has detailed its thinking behind canceling the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear and retiring the B83-1 gravity bomb.
Oct 26, 2022
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.
Oct 25, 2022
Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Oct 25, 2022
Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.
Oct 24, 2022
An oft-cited talking point for critics of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is simply to state the program’s official $1.68 trillion cost estimate, which is usually rounded up to a cleaner $1.7 trillion.
Oct 21, 2022
It is hoped the initiative will support a number of aerospace programs being pursued by India with support from British companies.
Oct 21, 2022
Following FMS approval, Japan is set to become the Raytheon-made munition’s first export customer.
Oct 20, 2022
The crash comes only a week after Hill AFB confirmed that an F-35A that was damaged in 2016 is now classed as a write-off.