Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis

May 26, 2020
After 18 years, 89 launches and thousands of tests, SpaceX attempts human spaceflight.
May 26, 2020
Here is a look at the company’s milestones from its 2002 founding to the eve of the manned Crew Dragon launch.
May 25, 2020
When Vice President Pence told NASA to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 “by any means possible,” he may have opened a Pandora’s box.
May 22, 2020
The defense sector is faring well in the COVID-19 crisis, but gargantuan new levels of government debt signal trouble ahead.
May 21, 2020
Special Forces looking for low-cost options to support ground troops in remote areas.

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Oct 05, 2022
A South Korean lawmaker says that the Republic of Korea Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-35As were classified as “operationally unready” on 234 times over an 18-month period ending in June.
Oct 03, 2022
The action comes despite recent market turmoil that plunged the pound to near parity with the U.S. dollar.
Sep 30, 2022
For aid to Ukraine, the industry has struggled to ramp up production despite Pentagon funding.
Sep 30, 2022
A baseline estimate released on Sept. 30 by the F-35 Joint Program Office proposes a sharp drop in new orders for the single-engine stealth fighter in production lots beyond Lot 17.
Sep 29, 2022
Senior U.S. Air Force leaders in recent days have weighed in on China’s advancements in its fighter force, criticizing Beijing’s technical prowess but offering some praise for its inventiveness ahead of the upcoming 20th National Congress and the Zhuhai air show.
Sep 29, 2022
The Spanish Defense Ministry has awarded local industry with contracts to investigate “possible evolutions of the challenges of national defense, the air domain, and will detail possible solutions to face them.”
Sep 29, 2022
The Osprey’s flight crew had made an emergency landing after the 15th confirmed case of a slipped slag clutch inside the tiltrotor's engine nacelle.
Sep 28, 2022
U.S. officials outlined 11 capabilities that will be delivered to Kyiv over the next six to 24 months.