By Lara Seligman October 12, 2015 Top Air Force officials have continued to hammer home the message that if the Pentagon is forced to operate under a stopgap spending measure next year, the service’s ability to buy new aircraft and modernize its existing fleet is in peril. Congress passed a 10-week continuing resolution Sept. 30 […]
The challenges tend to obscure progress for major programs like the joint strike fighter, but the JSF has been on a winning streak. [FULL VIDEO]
By Agence France-Presse September 20, 2015 OTTAWA, Canada— Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said on the campaign trail Sunday that he would scrap the purchase of F-35s — the apparent frontrunner to replace the nation’s aging fleet of fighter jets. “We will not buy the F-35 fighter jet,” he told a rally in Halifax ahead […]
By Deborah Lee James September 25, 2015 At a time when our nation is slashing defense budgets, we face a security environment that is extraordinarily complex and volatile, and our Air Force is busier than ever. Over the last year, 25,000 Airmen deployed in support of contingencies around the world. They flew almost 20,000 close air […]
By Steven Aftergood Aug.11, 2015 The environmental impacts of military operations are increasingly becoming factors in the planning and execution of military activities. “The military has a new appreciation for the interdependence between military missions, the global community, and the environment,” according to a newly revised and reissued Army doctrinal manual. See Environmental Considerations, ATP […]
By John Holland August 19, 2015 Predictions of doom bounced around City Hall in the summer of 2005 and landed on the front page in bold, desperate headlines. People were scared, and for good reason. Oceana Naval Air Station and its 12,000 jobs were on the Defense Department’s critical list, threatened with closure in large […]
By: JAMES DREW Aug 5, 2015 Lockheed Martin has received $431 million for special tooling and test equipment to support the ramp up of F-35 production over the coming years. The hefty sum was awarded as a modification to the current Lot 8 production contract, and comes as Lockheed and the Pentagon negotiate the purchase […]
By Richard Tomkins Aug. 20, 2015 SAN DIEGO, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Cubic Global Defense is to produce and enhance the Air Combat Training System in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the company has announced. Included in the work contracted by Lockheed Martin Aerospace is the addition of an internally mounted sub-system of the P5 […]
By Aaron Mehta August 25, 2015 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is not conducting a formal review of F-35 planned procurement numbers, a spokesman said Tuesday, despite comments by the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that indicate otherwise. In written testimony for his nomination hearing last month, Gen. Joe Dunford seemed to signal […]