As the Pentagon continues to invest in equipment to combat the novel coronavirus, the agency awarded a $75.5 million contract to Puritan Medical Products to double its monthly output of 20 million to 40 million swabs to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The Pentagon may have wiggle room to use some of its own funding to fight the global coronavirus pandemic.

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold an in-person nomination hearing May 7 for the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Navy secretary and deputy under secretary of defense for policy, despite the novel coronavirus.

The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold.

A $707 million contract for F110 engines awarded April 28 to GE Aviation was expedited to help provide relief to a U.S. propulsion industry badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said.

While the Pentagon intends to request billions of dollars in the next iteration of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to support the defense industrial base, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) does not believe the Defense Department (DOD) should receive stimulus funding, setting up a likely debate on which federal agencies should get cash.

Boeing does not anticipate a slowdown of the KC-46, MQ-25 or T-7 aircraft programs even though the company had to close facilities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior executives say.

The Pentagon’s plan to dramatically redesign the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus vision system is responsible for the bulk of an $827 million charge for the program in the first quarter.