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Boeing is still advocating the CH-47 Chinook and V-22 Osprey for the VXX presidential helicopter mission despite launching a new relationship with AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW-101 medium-lift helicopter, Phil Dunford, vice president and general manager for Boeing Rotorcraft Systems, said today.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) today released a letter from the Pentagon stating the department's opposition to House legislation that would add mention of the Marine Corps to name of the Navy Department and the title of the Navy secretary.
The Defense Department is seeking "alternative concepts" to cut the huge cost of acquiring new submarines armed with nuclear ballistic missiles that would patrol the world's oceans for decades to come, according to DOD's No. 2 policy official.
Ohio and Washington will be the first states to host new forces designed to respond to attacks involving weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, the Pentagon announced today.
Pentagon acquisition executive Ashton Carter has issued a memo on fundamental research that broadens guidance issued by his predecessor, John Young, on contracted fundamental research.
The cost of each Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyer has increased to $7.4 billion, prompting Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter to press the Navy to reduce risks in the program.
The Pentagon is strongly criticizing the Lockheed Martin division that builds the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for ignoring key management rules, but according to Lockheed the department has stopped short of revoking the contractor's management certification.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) today voiced support for funding the Joint Strike Fighter's alternate engine program against the administration's wishes, even though his panel's FY-11 defense authorization bill does not endorse the move. But a vote cast last night by House Appropriations defense subcommittee chairman Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) raises questions about the program's fate.
On Thursday night, the full House rejected an amendment to the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill that would have stopped funding for the Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine program.
The House Armed Services Committee's Republicans plan to offer amendments to the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill on Iran, nuclear policy, missile defense and the Quadrennial Defense Review.
An investigation board due to produce a public report on an April 8 CV-22 Osprey crash in Afghanistan begins its work in earnest today.
The Congressional Steel Caucus today sent Defense Secretary Robert Gates a letter urging the Pentagon to use only American steel in the production of armor for troops and vehicles.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates today questioned the affordability of the Navy's major shipbuilding endeavors, singling out plans to buy a dozen new costly ballistic missile submarines and stressing the fleet must be "designed for new challenges, new technologies, and new missions."
The Pentagon's Feb. 1 Quadrennial Defense Review report addressed many but not all of the items required by law, according to a study released today by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
The need for more persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for broad maritime areas tops U.S. Southern Command's integrated priority list, according to the command's chief, Gen. Douglas Fraser.
Iran is not pursuing military activities in Venezuela, U.S. Southern Command chief Gen. Douglas Fraser said today.
Next week the full House will bring to the floor and vote on a new defense acquisition reform bill, the IMPROVES Acquisition Act of 2010, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said today.
The Defense Department said this afternoon it is seeking to mitigate the high risk in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program that is described in a DOD assessment first reported in today's edition of Inside the Pen
Sikorsky's H-92 airframe will be the focus of a new VXX presidential helicopter teaming arrangement between former rivals Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, the contractors announced today.
Officials looking into the first V-22 Osprey crash to occur on the battlefield will likely be unable to repeat the kind of detailed investigations that followed two fatal Marine Corps Osprey crashes in 2000.