U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Sierra Nevada Corp. can move forward on the U.S. Army ’ s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) contract after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (denied a protest filed by losing bidder L3Harris.

The deployment plan overhauls how personnel prepare to deploy, creating four six-month stages.

Sierra Nevada has conducted the first flight of its Rapcon-X aircraft, a Bombardier Global 6500 SNC is developing for an Army ISR prototyping program.

As a technicality threatens to disrupt the program, Army officials laid out long-term plans for fielding and upgrading the future HADES fleet.

The audit recommends that the agency conduct at least one schedule risk analysis prior to introduction of the new Mobile Launcher 2 (ML2).

NASA must document efforts to address the greater-than-planned mass of the first two modules for its lunar-orbiting human-tended Gateway, says GAO auditors.

AFSOC and L3Harris announced the deliveries in social media posts.

The U.S. Navy aims to declare initial operational capability for the Next-Generation Jammer’s mid-band system before the end of September after multiple delays.

The Pentagon will continue with the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, despite an 81% cost increase.

The Government Accountability Office, in a report on NGI released June 26, says the agency is making progress developing the system.

NASA suffered significant cost growth on some major programs even as the agency managed to get control over problems with some of its flagship efforts, GAO says.

The U.S. Air Force did not back up its proposal to retire older Block 20 F-22s sufficiently, the Government Accountability Office argues in a new report.

The U.S. Air Force is close to an agreement with Boeing on the E-7A Wedgetail program, after cost disagreements derailed the program for months.

Lockheed Martin could potentially park 84 F-35s in temporary storage before receiving approval to resume deliveries with a new software update, the GAO says.

U.S. Special Operations Command is working to identify new requirements for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as it prioritizes the OA-1K aircraft.

Creativity isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about aircraft maintenance.

FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) faces long-running challenges in addressing safety concerns for human commercial spaceflight passengers.

Pentagon and Air Force officials have repeatedly said the Sentinel program is critical and must continue.

Congressional leaders are planning to increase oversight of the U.S. Air Force’s massive intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program.

An orbital propellant depot and fueling service are keys to the Starship lunar lander architecture.

The FAA has agreed to a pair of recommendations from a GAO audit concerning current procedures for investigating commercial space mishaps.

The fighter needs more cooling system capacity to keep electronics from overheating, but long-term requirements may entail major changes.

Does the U.S. Defense Department understand what is happening in the defense industrial base when it comes to mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

The Pentagon still lacks a plan to successfully wrestle sustainment functions away from the collection of contractors that now jealously own those roles.

NASA officials have acknowledged the evolving Space Launch System rocket is unaffordable at current cost levels.