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Apr 27, 2021
Heidi Shyu, a U.S. Army acquisition bureaucrat during the Obama administration and veteran Raytheon executive, is President Joe Biden’s pick for undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Apr 27, 2021
Frank Kendall's confirmation would fill a major vacancy in the Biden administration’s Defense Department with a key player from the Obama Pentagon.
Apr 27, 2021
Recent moves by Boeing’s board collectively guarantee the corner office overlooking the Chicago River is Calhoun’s to lose.
Apr 26, 2021
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has completed its Combat Systems Ship’s Qualification Trials (CSSQT), marking the end of the post-delivery test and trials phase, and is the U.S. Navy is now focused on the aircraft carrier moving toward full ship shock trials this summer.
Apr 26, 2021
As new materials and fuel technology advance, NASA gets serious again about nuclear space propulsion for missions to Mars and beyond.
Apr 23, 2021
The Pentagon is assessing what future contractor presence may look like for U.S. companies, especially those supporting aircraft maintenance, in Afghanistan after the military drawdown.
Apr 23, 2021
Two senior House Democrats are threatening to not support inserting additional F-35s over the base budget request in fiscal 2022 because of a laundry list of problems, including a large backlog the program is facing at the depots.
Apr 23, 2021
A glimpse of historic Mars missions since 1965 documented in the AW&ST digital archives.