As one would expect, Russia’s war in Ukraine has fueled international growth for defense products as nations seek to protect their borders and those of NATO, as well as support allies. Security is now front and center of political discussions around the world, and governments have responded by allocating several hundred-billion dollars for equipment and supplies to combat this threat. Though…
WASHINGTON —U.S. Marine Corps officials have met with defense industry representatives in Arkansas to discuss a potential facility to build air defense missiles pivotal to the service’s modernization plans.
The Corps’ Program Executive Office Land Systems has worked…
DAYTON, Ohio — With pressure on the U.S. Air Force to field its upcoming fleet of E-7A battlefield management aircraft as quickly as possible, the service is leaning heavily on advance procurement.
The Air Force wants to have a fleet of up to 26 of the Boeing-made…
Air Force Special Operations Command’s new network of so-called power projection wings is starting to come to fruition.
An Air Force news release revealed Wednesday that its special operations branch is in the process of reshaping three wings — two of which had not yet been made public — in a bid to prepare for a faster-paced, unpredictable way of war.
Those units are the 1st Special…
WASHINGTON — A request for proposals for the U.S. Air Force’s Cloud One Next program could come as soon as this month, as the service eyes a spring 2024 contract award, an official said.
The Air Force teased its Cloud One successor in November, seeking industry feedback…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army this week approved the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle for full-rate production, a spokesperson for the service’s Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems told Defense News.
The full-rate production contract award to AMPV-maker BAE Systems…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that troop readiness and retention is at risk as the Army’s chief stepped down Friday, leaving the military’s two ground combat forces without Senate-confirmed leaders for the first time in history.
Speaking during a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Austin said the Senate’s failure to confirm the services’ new leaders is…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy believes a pair of contracts it awarded this week for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers — covering as few as nine and as many as 15 ships over the next five years — is the best way to help two shipyards recover from challenges and increase their…
WASHINGTON — Bombs boom. Tanks trundle. Fighters fly. All are visible to the human eye and are familiar images of war.
But invisible battles are fought, too. And as the U.S. prepares for potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific or with Russia in Europe, the value…
DAYTON, Ohio — The U.S. Air Force expects to release its formal request for information for a KC-135 tanker recapitalization in September, which will pave the way for an official acquisition strategy for the program it previously referred to as a “bridge tanker.”
In a roundtable discussion with reporters at the service’s Life Cycle Industry Days event in Dayton, Ohio, the deputy program…
