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Feb 19, 2021
The UK is establishing a counterpart to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, backed up with £800 million ($1.1 billion) of funding over the next four years.
Feb 16, 2021
A selection of the Saab Gripen by Finland as its future combat aircraft could lead to greater integration between the Swedish and Finnish air forces, Sweden’s defense minister has suggested.
Feb 11, 2021
Triumph Group announced late Feb. 10 that it had struck a deal to sell its Red Oak, Texas, operations to aerospace private equity investors Arlington Capital Partners.
Feb 11, 2021
The Pentagon has a new China Task Force headed by Ely Ratner, a former adviser to President Joe Biden, that is charged with assessing whether the Defense Department is poised to outpace China in a “technology competition.”
Feb 11, 2021
Germany will decide on the selection of a new fleet of heavy-lift helicopters before the summer of 2021, a position paper on the transformation of Germany’s armed forces states. 
Feb 08, 2021
The U.S. is freezing the sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia as part of a broader Biden administration policy shift of not supporting the nation’s war in Yemen.
Feb 08, 2021
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has announced that he will not seek a seventh term in 2022.
Feb 05, 2021
The top officers in the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps recently reinvigorated debate surrounding military readiness and recommended adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the mix of existing metrics.