The announcement comes as Spain works to upgrade other parts of its helicopter fleet.
By Aaron MehtaA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
Members of Congress in late January began pushing to expedite the deal.
By Andrew Eversden
“The fact is that most of our processes, particularly in the Foreign Military Sales cases, I think work extremely well,” said new DSCA head Jim Hursch in his first interview since taking office.
By Colin Clark
James Hursch, a Pentagon civilian with decades of security cooperation experience under his belt, has taken over the Pentagon’s foreign arms sale office.
By Valerie Insinna
Heidi Grant has been leading the Defense Security Cooperation Agency for 15 months.
By Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna
DSCA also is looking at ways to better advertise options like third-party transfers to potential foreign buyers, says Air Force FMS specialist Col. Anthony Walker.
By Theresa Hitchens
In addition to the $750 million Taiwan deal, State also cleared a pair of weapons packages for Japan.
By Aaron Mehta
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
A new system will retrain 20,000 DoD employees to work within the National Defense Strategy, while shifting focus to new areas of the world.
By Paul McLeary
“The US is doing far more than its allies in coming to grips with causing civilian harm,” a human rights NGO representative who has met with Pentagon leaders said. Still, the gap between government estimates and those from groups on the ground is often wide.
By Paul McLeary
A key Trump ally, Sen. Lindsay Graham, bucks the White House on its proposed $8 billion arms sale.
By Paul McLeary
The $55.6 billion represents closed deals, many of which had in in the works for years. But the focus of the Trump administration pumping up US arms sales to boost domestic manufacturing jobs has led to officials across the Pentagon and State Department to proclaim pushing American kit is a big part of their international engagements.
By Paul McLeary
Trump’s America First policies are paying off for U.S. weapons manufacturers.
By Paul McLeary
WASHINGTON: No Russians. Few Chinese. The F-35. And the man who has led the charge in America’s trade wars, Peter Navarro, at the head the American delegation, with lots of other senior American officials along eager to boost bilateral sales of US weapons and civilian aircraft. Those are the early outlines of what we’ll see at this…
By Colin Clark
Assistance programs can be better tailored to their objectives when State shares directive authority and decision-making power with the entity most relevant to each program’s purpose. For example, when the objective is military capacity-building, the Defense Department should be an equal partner; when the goal is justice system reform, the Department of Justice should be a full partner.
By Janae Diaz and Brent Sadler