Tuesday, December 7, 2021
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill that restores the requirement for the Pentagon to submit annual selected acquisition reports detailing the cost, schedule and performance of its key weapons programs.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- A lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee is urging the development of a collaborative initiative focused on workforce development to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
Flight testing for the Air Force's Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon is poised to resume in the coming months, the program's director said this week, following the conclusion of a failure review board's analysis of the hypersonic missile's latest testing mishap.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Pentagon's chief technology officer is aiming to address four critical capability gaps through a planned set of joint technology experiments starting in fiscal year 2023, but an appropriations delay on Capitol Hill could hold up the department's schedule.
The U.S. military today took a key step toward operationalizing a major new component of its national missile defense system, declaring the Long Range Discrimination Radar -- a hulking pair of sensors in the heart of Alaska, each six stories tall and equally wide -- fielded and ready for testing to improve defense against North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles.
SIMI VALLEY, CA -- A lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee is urging the development of a collaborative initiative focused on workforce development to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
Congress has procured a total of 13 ships, including three destroyers, in its final version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, five more ships than the Navy requested in its initial budget.
The House and Senate Armed Services committees today unveiled a compromise fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill to be voted on in each chamber, without including a number of high-profile cybersecurity amendments such as a cyber incident reporting mandate and assorted recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill that restores the requirement for the Pentagon to submit annual selected acquisition reports detailing the cost, schedule and performance of its key weapons programs.
The Navy is hosting a workshop next February with industry and academia to explore autonomous capabilities on large and long-endurance unmanned undersea vehicles.
House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill that restores the requirement for the Pentagon to submit annual selected acquisition reports detailing the cost, schedule and performance of its key weapons programs.
