Textron Buys Beechcraft in Industry Shakeup As federal budgets decline, contractors may increasingly seek mergers and acquisitions to maintain profit margins.
BAE Adds F-15, F/A-18 to Fighter Upgrade Push The international market for upgrading the twin-engine jets won't be as large as that of the single-engine F-16 Fighting...
Army's Bright Acquisition Spot: Howitzer Upgrades The Army is moving forward with plans to spend almost $8 billion to buy 582 advanced M109 howitzers as part of the Paladin...
Lockheed, BAE Vie for F-16 Upgrades Abroad BAE wants to challenge Lockheed in competitions to upgrade F-16s in Asia, Europe and especially the Middle East -- a slice of...
BAE 'Bullish' Army Will Buy Missile Guidance Kits The U.S. subsidiary of the British defense giant BAE Systems Plc expects the Army to begin buying its guidance kits to...
Think Tank: Cancel the Littoral Combat Ship A research group is calling on lawmakers to cancel the Littoral Combat Ship months after the Pentagon cut the number of...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
