Congressional behavior, midterm elections, new technologies and rising startup companies are likely to drive change in the 2020s.

The Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee has proposed adding about $10 billion to the Pentagon’s budget request, adding funding to accelerate missile tracking satellites, defense systems in the Pacific and 16 more C-130s.

The Turkish government is hoping it can use $1.6 billion that it paid for U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to pay for new-build F-16s and upgrades to its existing fleet.

U.S. Air Force experiments with satellite to augment GPS.

Spirit AeroSystems plans to open a new National Defense Prototype Center to focus on the development and testing of high-temperature materials for the aviation, defense and space programs.

For more than a year, investors and observers of the leading A&D company have been perplexed.

The top official overseeing U.S. international weapons sales will take over Boeing’s defense, space and government sales, starting two days after she leaves government service.

The incident comes days after the country requested a dozen more of the type under U.S. foreign military sales.