A senior U.S. Air Force general warned on April 16 that the Defense Department cannot afford some of the long range strike programs funded by other services. 

A review of Britain’s defense capabilities has been paused in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

South Korean military equipment acquisition spending will suffer from a shift in allocations from the defense budget to COVID-19 relief efforts.

More than a dozen companies and government agencies are seeking to use drones in ways that are beyond what is currently allowed by FAA regulations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said April 15.

The White House has selected the chief executives from General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies to serve on the “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups.”

The Department of the Air Force has conducted its first-ever Space Acquisition Council meeting and discussed the need for integration and synchronization across the national security space community, current and projected threats to U.S. interests in space, and the impact of the COVID-19 environment on the aerospace industry.

The Pentagon has issued a $415 million contract for N95 critical decontamination units to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The U.S. Coast Guard is committed to the Defense Department’s Future Vertical Lift program and will implement a bridging strategy to sustain an aging fleet of HH-65s and MH-60Ts for at least another decade, Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said on April 13.