Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis

Mar 22, 2023
The Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 request includes an increase in procurement and research and looks to cut the current fleet to pay for it.
Mar 20, 2023
Leonardo Helicopters Managing Director Gian Piero Cutillo talks digitalization, supply chains and his vision for the company’s UK operation.
Mar 20, 2023
The agency's budget request would provide funding to land humans on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.
Mar 10, 2023
Next-Generation Air Dominance to be approximately a one-for-one F-22 replacement, bolstered by collaborative combat aircraft.
Mar 10, 2023
Officials call for clean-sheet designs, saying commercial-derivative refuelers are not survivable.

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Mar 12, 2024
The Osprey fleet has since at least 2010 been plagued by an issue of hard-clutch engagement in the proprotor gearbox, which has caused multiple incidents.
Mar 11, 2024
The U.S. Navy will see its total aircraft procurement dip in fiscal 2025 compared to the previous year’s request.
Mar 11, 2024
The U.S. Air Force wants to spend $2.81 billion for development of its Next Generation Air Dominance manned aircraft.
Mar 11, 2024
The Pentagon on March 11 rolled out its $849.8 billion budget request for 2025.
Mar 11, 2024
Procurement of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-7 trainer is set to begin in fiscal 2025, but at half the number originally expected.
Mar 11, 2024
The service announced last month it would cancel the FARA program after spending $2 billion on development of competitive prototypes from Bell and Sikorsky.
Mar 11, 2024
The U.S. Air Force is changing course again on plans for its Boeing F-15EX Eagle II in the service’s fiscal 2025 budget request.
Mar 11, 2024
The ARRW is currently deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam, where it is expected to be tested on a B-52 soon.