The Pentagon’s top buyer, Ellen Lord, is rewriting regulations from a one-size-fits-all approach to let officials pick the best procurement pathway for their particular program.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
As the EU releases plans for new ships, drones, and missile defense systems, Washington and NATO worry the organization’s new weapons may not work seamlessly with the alliance’s.
By Paul McLeary
The armed services agree they need to work together better — they just don’t agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
By Theresa Hitchens
GAO finds that the Space C2 program “is planning to meet previously deferred requirements that proved too complex for prior programs to achieve,” and “also plans to address new and emerging threats to space assets, for which requirements are not yet defined.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The readiness rates were revealed this morning during a press briefing at the Pentagon to announce final agreement on the largest procurement in American history: the $34 billion purchase of 478 F-35s in Lots 12-14.
By Colin Clark
While the US is standing fast on its removal of Turkey from the F-35 program, DoD Acquisition czar Ellen Lord says there no decision has been made yet about FMS sales.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We need that partnership with customers on the DoD side where they’re willing to take a step forward with us in understanding that neither one of us knows the ultimate answer.”
By Paul McLeary
Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
The Predator B’s weapons, avionics and comms suites will all need to be specially configured to meet the needs of India’s military.
By Theresa Hitchens
Washington finally removes Turkey from the F-35 program, but Pentagon officials decline to say whether there’s a path for it to come back.
By Paul McLeary
Is the European Defence Fund a long-overdue move by US allies to take more responsibility for their own security? Or a bid to exclude US companies from European arms markets?
By Paul McLeary
The deal for hundreds of new F-35s will drive the cost per airplane below $80 million for the first time.
By Colin Clark
The Pentagon appears to be ready to take further action in the long-running saga over Turkey and the F-35.
By Colin Clark
USDI Kari Bingen says that DoD’s mission “is hampered when we have to pay in time and money analysts and experts to manually translate data files … to makes systems and data interoperable because of proprietary data standards and formats.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Europe has bristled at a letter sent to the EU from the Pentagon and State Department, which says proposed EU defense programs are unfair to the US defense industry.
By Paul McLeary
