Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Jul 10, 2020
Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.
Jul 09, 2020
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.
Jul 09, 2020
It is time for the military to relinquish control of commercial positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Jul 08, 2020
Near-term acquisition programs are hardly altered. Most proposals will go ahead late in the 2020s or in the 2030s.
Jul 08, 2020
UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.
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Sep 09, 2024
The UK plans to send a further 650 Thales Lightweight Multirole Missiles to Ukraine to bolster the country’s ability to battle Russian forces.
Sep 09, 2024
Seoul is set to acquire WB Electronic's Warmate 1 to promptly bolster its loitering munitions capability.
Sep 09, 2024
The EU says it has received one bid from the SpaceRISE consortium—SAS, Eutelsat and Hispasat—to develop and deploy the sovereign satcom constellation IRIS2.
Sep 06, 2024
Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Defense Secretary, spoke with reporters following the meeting.
Sep 05, 2024
Latin America may be on the verge—or even in the midst of—a generational overhaul of military aviation, as operators are rife with aging fleets that will need replacing as soon as budgets allow.
Sep 05, 2024
“New threats require action,” the Dutch government says, also announcing it will spend money on helicopters, tanks and warships in addition to the F-35 JSF buy.
Sep 04, 2024
Army pilots scored an alarmingly high 2.01 flight mishap rate per 100,000 flight hours through the first 10 months of fiscal 2024.
Sep 04, 2024
Now, with NGAD on hold, the Air Force looks to speedrun through a review of that work.