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Boeing’s tanker losses top $7 billion

April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON — Boeing reported a $245 million charge on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker in the first quarter of 2023, due to a supplier’s quality issues. The penalty means the KC-46 has now racked up more than $7 billion in charges, and follow a $1.2 billion hit the company took on the Air Force tanker in the third quarter of 2022. The KC-46′s charge brought Boeing Defense, Space and Security into…
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It’s time to resource the Air Force fighter enterprise the US needs

April 27, 2023
Air superiority involves protecting friendly forces from aerial attack, while concurrently empowering offensive power projection by suppressing enemy defenses. The former is key to not losing a war. The latter is what brings victory. Joint combat power is not viable without control of the sky. Investment in a capable, sufficiently sized fighter enterprise is the down payment required for…
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Zero trust could have limited Pentagon leak, Navy CTO says

April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s chief technology officer said that if the Pentagon had already implemented its “zero-trust” approach to protecting its information networks, it may have more quickly detected a recent, high-profile classified document leak. The discovery this…
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US Army evaluating radios for both Indo-Pacific and Europe

April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is assessing its future distribution of radios and related gear that provide vital links to far-flung soldiers in both the Indo-Pacific and Europe. The juggle, teased months ago by then-Army Chief Information Raj Iyer, considers multiple factors…
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Zero trust could have limited Pentagon leak, Navy CTO says

April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s chief technology officer said that if the Pentagon had already implemented its “zero-trust” approach to protecting its information networks, it may have more quickly detected a recent, high-profile classified document leak. The discovery this month that a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard with a top secret security clearance had posted…
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Army evaluating future of heavy-lift helicopters

April 27, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Army has embarked on a study to consider a future heavy vertical lift aircraft, the director of Army Future Vertical Lift modernization told Defense News. The service is years into developing and procuring other Future Vertical Lift aircraft…
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What’s the real value of the US Defense Department audit?

April 26, 2023
As Congress examines the details of the president’s fiscal 2024 defense budget, members are also rightly focused on making the most of every dollar for military capability, and reimagining a defense budget structure that is more responsive, agile and transparent. As we overlay these priorities with news last fall that the Pentagon has yet to achieve a clean opinion on its financial statements…
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