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Mar 20, 2020
Two lawmakers are making a bipartisan plea to House Appropriations defense subcommittee leadership for the purchase of two MQ-4C Tritons in fiscal 2021.
Mar 20, 2020
U.S. defense primes are increasingly securing billion-dollar sums of new debt financing as companies large and small manage a liquidity crisis stemming from the COVID-19 virus and the collapse of air travel.
Mar 20, 2020
CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA is temporarily halting work on the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft as it closes the Michoud Assembly Facility in…
Mar 19, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is putting U.S. defense companies in a bind.
Mar 19, 2020
Aircraft repairs continue as normal despite the novel coronavirus scare at the three sprawling Air Logistics Centers (ALCs), where about 25,000 workers maintain the bulk of the U.S. Air Force aircraft fleet. 
Mar 19, 2020
The UK declared the F-35 operational even though the fleet was suffering from availability, infrastructure, logistics and security issues, auditors have revealed.
Mar 19, 2020
The U.S. Air Force is launching Puckboard, a software application to automatically plan C-17 Globemaster III aircrew qualification flights, a task that used to take a 10-20-person operations team several days.
Mar 19, 2020
German unions have stepped into the ongoing discussion over Germany’s plan to replace its Panavia Tornado fighter bomber fleet.