Sunday, November 16, 2025
The Army wants to expand its agile funding initiative to consolidate budget items across each of its newly announced portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs) -- teeing up potential tension with a Congress that has already pushed back on proposals for spending flexibility.
A stopgap spending measure that will fund the federal government through Jan. 30 contains about $1.1 billion in cost to complete funding for Navy shipbuilding accounts but lacks previously requested support for the service’s top-priority Columbia-class submarine program.
Startups and scaleups in the defense industry are saying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to “transform” the defense acquisition ecosystem signals the Pentagon is ready to act like a rational buyer and open the market to new industrial base players.
Integrating more competition “into the arena” of shipbuilding is essential, Navy Secretary John Phelan said today, highlighting some of his frustrations with defense primes -- contractors he says should invest more of their own capital in the shipbuilding process.
The Senate-passed continuing resolution would order the Air Force to continue the E-7A Wedgetail program with up to $400 million.
The Army’s new Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office director, Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, has delegated responsibility for the Guam Defense System Joint Program Office to the Integrated Fires Directorate in the service’s program executive office for missiles and space, according to an Army official.
RTX’s Raytheon has signed a memorandum of understanding with propulsion technology company Avio to help the later company establish a solid rocket motor production facility within the United States, according to a Monday announcement.
Boeing machinists in the St. Louis area voted today to accept a contract agreement with the defense contractor and return to work after striking for more than three months, according to an announcement from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
A stopgap spending measure that will fund the federal government through Jan. 30 contains about $1.1 billion in cost to complete funding for Navy shipbuilding accounts but lacks previously requested support for the service’s top-priority Columbia-class submarine program.
Joby Aviation flew its autonomous hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator for the first time last week, the company announced today, completing the feat roughly three months after it initially revealed the aircraft’s concept.
The Army wants to expand its agile funding initiative to consolidate budget items across each of its newly announced portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs) -- teeing up potential tension with a Congress that has already pushed back on proposals for spending flexibility.
The Army is preparing to tap a mix of flexible procurement authorities in an effort to generate a "predictable demand signal" and fully leverage the capacity of the U.S. industrial base as it pursues an ambitious plan to buy 1 million drones over the next two to three years, according to a service official.
The Army wants to expand its agile funding initiative to consolidate budget items across each of its newly announced portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs) -- teeing up potential tension with a Congress that has already pushed back on proposals for spending flexibility.
