British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told journalists at RAF Waddington, England, that the UK's new Protector remotely piloted air system will enable the Royal Air Force to operate on the “world stage.”

New Delhi finally approved the procurement of the Spanish-developed airlifter some six years after the aircraft was selected as a replacement for the Indian Air Force’s Hawker Siddeley HS 748 fleet.

The European OEM says it wants to make Australia’s defense satcom transition to a sovereign capability “as easy as possible.”

The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2022 defense policy bill further reduces the U.S. Air Force’s C-130 fleet, with a member targeting aircraft in his own district as the Guard has pressed to keep more of the aircraft.

The House Armed Services Committee has approved a bill to authorize spending $778 billion for U.S. defense efforts in fiscal 2022, increasing by about 3% the amount it had initially sought.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has requested billions of yen to study and develop both defensive and offensive capabilities in the unmanned, hypersonic, electronic warfare and space domains.  

The Pentagon is reaching out to small businesses to learn about the barriers they face in winning Defense Department contracts, as the proportion of smaller companies in the defense industrial base continues to shrink.

The House Armed Services Committee on Sept. 1 voted 42-17 to authorize a $23.9 billion increase in U.S. defense spending, for a total of $778 billion in fiscal 2022.