Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Jun 23, 2025
The late budget rollout, coupled with a reliance on GOP-led reconciliation, has caused consternation in a typically bipartisan budget process.
Jun 20, 2025
In its attacks on Iran, Israel teaches a master class on gaining air superiority.
Jun 20, 2025
The blended wing body demonstrator from JetZero is intended to provide the basis for development of a new military tanker-transport and a midmarket airliner.
Jun 18, 2025
Listen in as editors at the Paris Air Show break down Israel's latest offensive and how that country's defense companies have been walled off here at the show.
Jun 17, 2025
With Navy acquisition programs already in a “mess,” the Pentagon is skeptical about adding a second sixth-generation fighter onto a strained defense industry.
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Nov 18, 2025
Airpower strength is tipping toward Saudi Arabia in the Gulf region after President Trump said he would approve the sale of Lockheed F-35As to the Kingdom.
Nov 17, 2025
The DOD's head of research and engineering has downsized the department’s list of top-priority technology areas it inherited.
Nov 17, 2025
Edge Group is mulling a teaming arrangement with Indra to sell the Abu Dhabi-based company’s growing stable of loitering munitions in Europe.
Nov 17, 2025
Lockheed Martin is seeing growing interest in its Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to provide a 360-deg. field of vision for air and missile defense.
Nov 17, 2025
The UAE Armed Forces will acquire at least one Embraer Praetor 600 as a VIP aircraft in the first military aircraft deal of the Dubai Airshow.
Nov 17, 2025
Embraer has withdrawn a proposal to open a final assembly center in Saudi Arabia for the C-390 in favor of offering a regional completion center for the airlifter in the UAE.
Nov 15, 2025
The Colombian government finalized a deal for 17 Saab F-39E/F Gripens, adding a fourth operator for the latest version of the fighter which is built in both Sweden and Brazil.
Nov 14, 2025
The U.S. Army is the first service to unveil an overhaul of its acquisition structure following a Pentagon-level reorganization of how it plans to buy weapons.