Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on Dec. 6 announced another drawdown of materiel for Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Paul De Lia
Leveraging cloud-native architectures can help the U.S. military modernize electromagnetic spectrum operations.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The need to counter faster, more powerful drones at a large scale is becoming the “problem of our time,” a top Defense Department weapons buyer says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has shifted search operations for the remaining missing crewmembers of a V-22 that crashed near Japan into a recovery mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) relented on Pentagon nominees, clearing the Senate to approve almost all of the senior officers awaiting promotions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin’s two electronic warfare pod programs progress toward flight testing and airworthiness certification.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force needs to open up its high-end training ranges and exercises to AI and machine learning, its top civilian sasys.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Ken Bedingfield, a former chief financial officer at Northrop Grumman, is taking the same position at L3Harris Technologies, the latter announced Dec. 4.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Auditors have determined the UK Defense Ministry’s plans to purchase equipment over the next 10 years are again unaffordable.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK Defense Ministry says Cawdor Barracks, formerly a U.K. Royal Air Force flight training base, has been named as the preferred DARC site.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Most fighter aircraft made in the U.S. are in line to get improved radar warning receivers and self-protection jammers.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
Plans for an automated docking were changed because the cargo capsule was slightly out of alignment as it approached the ISS.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Gen. David Allvin is taking charge of a service undergoing change in almost all aspects of its force structure
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The country’s Vision 2030 set challenging goals for its fledgling defense industry, but SAMI CEO Walid Abukhaled says the efforts are on track.
Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
Thailand’s 2023 Defense & Security exhibition here featured an entirely new security and geopolitical landscape since it was last held a year ago.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
European Council President Charles Michel on Nov. 30 proposed issuing “defense bonds” to investors to help fund the European Union’s common defense needs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is building a road map of technologies for automated aerial refueling that will pave the way for a second-generation MRTT.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Erich Fischer, Blaine Pellicore and Matthieu Vigneron
The U.S. will need to make more spacecraft more quickly and less expensively.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren, Brian Everstine
A U.S Air Force Bell/Boeing CV-22 Osprey has crashed into the waters off southwestern Japan, killing at least one of the eight on board.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has attained full operational capability (FOC) for its MBDA Aster 30 SAMP/T surface-to-air missile system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Three F-16s of the 32 purchased by Romania left the Rygge airbase near Oslo on Nov. 28 following upgrade and maintenance to prepare them for Romanian service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Plans for Sukhoi Su-35 fighters, Mil Mi-28 helicopters and Yak-130 jet trainers to enter Iranian service have reportedly been finalized.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
After its invasion of Ukraine, Russia may be able to re-build its military within 6-10 years—a new white paper argues that NATO needs to have modernized before then.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The surge of military aid to Israel and related movement of air defenses to U.S. bases in the Middle East has meant a peak tasking of American airlift.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon plans by year's end to select which uncrewed autonomous systems will see accelerated development and bulk purchases.
Budget, Policy & Operations