Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis

Dec 16, 2020
Beyond COVID-19, the new leadership team at the Pentagon will inherit a huge modernization agenda.
Dec 15, 2020
All four RQ-4s have been delivered and all 40 F-35As will be in 2021. So the 2021 acquisition budget is not rising much.
Dec 15, 2020
If the relationship between China’s defense spending and GDP holds, growth in allocations will trend downward in the coming decade.
Dec 14, 2020
A four-year-old strategy to boost spending levels for defense faces its greatest test in the wake of Canada’s COVID-19 response.
Dec 11, 2020
Modernization and rotary-wing fleet renewal is a priority for defense’s new spending spree.

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May 22, 2025
Poland plans to buy around 1,400 Boeing GBU-39/B Small-Diameter Bombs (SDB), Warsaw and Washington say.
May 22, 2025
The European Investment Fund is putting $45 million into a fund run by Keen Venture Partners as part of Europe’s efforts to foster defense and space startups.
May 21, 2025
Japanese technology conglomerate Rakuten has entered into cooperation with a Ukrainian effort to develop a defense technology ecosystem.
May 21, 2025
The UK will publish its Strategic Defense Review within two weeks, says former NATO Secretary Gen. George Robertson, who has helped lead the effort.
May 20, 2025
The Ascent joint venture of Babcock and Lockheed Martin secured a £300 million contract to train rear crew personnel for the UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
May 20, 2025
ESA and the European Commission want to come to an agreement around what a future Earth-observation system should look like in advance of funding decisions.
May 20, 2025
Lockheed Martin says it has proposed to establish several in-country MRO capabilities in the Philippines to support the F-16 and C-130 fleets.
May 20, 2025
The complexity of the security situation in the South China Sea and the de facto limited budget means that the Philippine Air Force's (PAF) modernization objectives face tough competition with other services.