Lynn Pushes Acquisition Reform The Pentagon’s chief buyer laid out his plan to reform a broken acquisition process, beginning with ending costly weapons...
Debate: Outside QDR Red Team? At Wednesday's House Armed Services Committee budget hearing, Rep. Mac Thornberry, one of the most consistently thoughtful...
'Incompetent' Navy Wastes Money Former Navy Secretary John Lehman stepped forward today and laid out the Navy's shipbuilding problems in stark terms. The...
V-22 Readiness Rates OK: Conway The V-22, slated to head to Afghanistan in October, is performing at acceptable readiness rates, Marine Commandant Gen. James...
Blue Ribbon Works Son of FCS The Army announced today a June 15 workshop that will convene a wide range of experts to inform a “Ground Combat Vehicle Blue...
JSF Chief Slams Boeing on F-15 The general building the F-35 called Boeing on the carpet here at the Paris Air Show, saying they were misleading customers...
Worried Murtha Checking MV-22 A retired Marine who also happens to be one of the most powerful defense lawmakers, Rep. Jack Murtha, has begun raising...
Allies! Take Heart During QDR Persistent rumors from the allied community in Washington had the Obama administration dropping a key concept from this QDR -...
Regs Hinder Osprey Defenses V-22 Osprey critics question the plane’s survivability in high-threat environments, saying the tilt-rotor lacks the...
CIA's Phoenix Program Flies Again Mention of the Vietnam-era “Phoenix” program typically conjures images of rogue CIA-backed assassination teams roaming the...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
Camp Pendleton Officer, Wife Sue Military Housing Company over Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Son A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp...
Coast Guard to Launch Service-Wide Physical Fitness Test for All Members Next Year Coast Guard men and women must take a preliminary assessment by the end of this year and a mandatory PFT starting in 2026.
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
Rubio Says US Is Designating 2 More Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Groups The two new designees, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, are Ecuadorian gangs blamed for much of the violence that began since the...
