Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Jul 10, 2020
Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.
Jul 09, 2020
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.
Jul 09, 2020
It is time for the military to relinquish control of commercial positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Jul 08, 2020
Near-term acquisition programs are hardly altered. Most proposals will go ahead late in the 2020s or in the 2030s.
Jul 08, 2020
UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.
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Oct 26, 2022
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.
Oct 25, 2022
Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Oct 25, 2022
Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.
Oct 24, 2022
An oft-cited talking point for critics of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is simply to state the program’s official $1.68 trillion cost estimate, which is usually rounded up to a cleaner $1.7 trillion.
Oct 21, 2022
It is hoped the initiative will support a number of aerospace programs being pursued by India with support from British companies.
Oct 21, 2022
Following FMS approval, Japan is set to become the Raytheon-made munition’s first export customer.
Oct 20, 2022
The crash comes only a week after Hill AFB confirmed that an F-35A that was damaged in 2016 is now classed as a write-off.
Oct 20, 2022
British intelligence-gathering flights over the Black Sea region were suspended following the incident on Sept. 29, which occurred in international airspace.