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Japan’s defense ministry has proposed to start working with a foreign partner on the country’s Next Generation Fighter.

The U.S. Navy has formed an F-35 maintenance team that can respond to a crisis at a moment’s notice.

Leonardo has carried out the first flight of a Eurofighter Typhoon destined for the Kuwait Air Force.

The acting U.S. Navy secretary is holding a “Make Ford Ready” summit Jan. 9 that will feature all government and industry stakeholders who will focus on achieving four tasks to ensure the USS Gerald R. Ford deploys on time.

A powered target simulating a cruise missile was shot down by a guided 2.75-in. rocket fired by a Lockheed Martin F-16 to demonstrate a relatively affordable capability to defend bases from attacks by waves of cheap cruise missiles.

Japan will extended local assembly of Lockheed Martin F-35s by at least two years.

Argentina will purchase four Lockheed P-3Cs retired by the U.S. Navy.

Local production of the Sikorsky UH-60J has suffered the largest cut in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year OK'd by Japan.

Private equity-backed Shimtech Industries has purchased Fastener Technology Corp.

Lockheed Martin has extended its long-running hypersonic links with Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Lockheed Martin formally opened a new assembly line for F-16 Block 70 aircraft in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 17.

Lockheed Martin formally opened a new assembly line for F-16 Block 70 aircraft in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 17.

Lockheed Martin F-35As previously designated for Turkey will be converted to the U.S. Air Force fleet, congressional appropriators said on Dec. 17.

A conference agreement by the House and Senate on Dec. 16 inserts at least three-quarters of a billion dollars in fiscal 2020 budget accounts linked to the U.S. military’s bulging hypersonic weapons portfolio.

The U.S. House on Dec. 17 passed a spending bill that will provide $693.3 billion to the Pentagon in fiscal 2020.

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft remains on track to make its first flight in 2021.

Recovery teams have found components of the aircraft’s landing gear.

An agreement has been signed between Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-35 fighter jet, and aircraft manufacturer Aerion to develop the world's first supersonic business jet.