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NASA’s current tally for the economic toll to its programs from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is about $1.5 billion, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on July 29. 

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory plans to audition the medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system next year to carry two, newly-developed airborne networking pods. 

Boeing’s noncommercial businesses remain its lone bright spot amid a global airline industry crisis that is forcing the company to shrink, despite a second-quarter performance that saw minuscule year-over-year revenue growth and lower operating margin in Boeing’s Defense, Space, and Security unit.

As part of a larger strategy shift that calls for the removal of 11,900 U.S. troops from Germany, an F-16 unit is relocating from Spangdahlem Air Base to Italy, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says.

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee is against folding funding for Defense Department programs into the latest COVID-19 relief package. 

A proposal by Senate Republicans seeks to add billions for defense spending to the COVID-19 relief package, including new money for F-35, P-8 and C-130J procurement.

Luxembourg looks set to expand its role in the European Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) by enabling the purchase of a ninth Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker-Transport (MRTT).