Navy Awards Next-Gen Radar Contract Raytheon received a deal that could be worth $1.6 billion to build a radar for Arleigh-Burke class destroyers.
Air Force Budget Slashes Legacy Aircraft The 2015 budget translates into fewer airmen and fewer aircraft across its active-duty, reserve and guard components.
Army Will Buy More Strykers with Double V-Hulls The U.S. Army is outfitting another one of its Stryker Brigade Combat Team with Double V-Hull vehicles to better protect them...
Pentagon Sets up F-35 Maintenance Plan in Asia The Pentagon’s F-35 program announced plans for the program’s maintenance and sustainment of the aircraft in the Asia Pacific...
Gates Should Say Sorry on Tanker to Boeing, Northrop CEOs Defense Secretary Robert Gates should call in the CEOs of Boeing and Northrop (and probably EADS), apologize to them for the...
Tanker Wars, Part Deux Northrop Grumman, breaking its puzzling quietude of the last several months, has come out swinging in the tanker wars. First...
Major Scandal Brewing at Audit Agency The old Roman question: who will guard the guards themselves has an answer today in the world of defense contracting --...
Airman Accused of Firing AK-47 Through Apartment Wall in Latest Gun Death Near Wyoming Base The weekend arrest and firearm death come just weeks after a Security Forces airman was killed by an M18 handgun on base...
Navy Is Retiring the Last of its Storied Cruisers. To Veterans, They Were ‘the Pinnacle of Naval Power’ As the Navy nears its 250th anniversary in October, there's a lot of reminiscing going on about the fleet. Much of it...
Cancer in Military Pilots and Aircrews Will Be Studied Under Newly Signed Law President Donald Trump signed a law last week ordering the review of the prevalence of cancer and deaths by cancer in fixed...
AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures that Haven’t Changed Much Since Napoleon’s Army AI agents -- autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models -- can automate routine staff tasks...
40 Years of Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunions. Now, a Final 'Taps' In a pesky drizzle, a handful of people recently set out 400 small American flags on an empty lot in memory of the 400...
