The Pentagon's top acquisition official wants the services and defense agencies to pay more attention to safety in designing weapon systems.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
The Pentagon's top acquisition official wants the services and defense agencies to pay more attention to safety in designing weapon systems.
The Arrow missile defense system failed to achieve an intercept today during a test at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California, the Missile Defense Agency said in a statement.
Proposed cuts to the Missile Defense Agency's Kinetic Energy Interceptors program would delay deployment nearly two years and increase costs by $440 million, the Pentagon told Congress last week.
The Defense Department last week asked Senate appropriators to reconsider their decision to cut $74 million from its budget request for federally funded research and development centers.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency yesterday notified Congress of Taiwan's interest in buying two ultra-high-frequency, long-range early warning radars worth nearly $1.8 billion.
The CIA has selectively declassified the testimony of a senior official to highlight his "suspicions" about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, while keeping information that counters those suspicions classified, according to a senior Senate Democrat.
The Pentagon has canceled the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter program at the Army's request, senior service officials announced today.
Boeing has been awarded a multiyear contract worth $8.6 billion for the production of 210 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, the Pentagon announced today.
Aiming to improve logistics interoperability among allies, the United States has offered NATO six months of trial access to its radio frequency identification architecture, according to sources and documents.
The Senate today passed an amendment to the $87 billion supplemental appropriations bill that would increase the number of active-duty Army troops by 10,000.
Vice Adm. Timothy Keating has been selected to succeed Army Lt. Gen. George Casey as director of the Joint Staff, the Pentagon announced today.
The White House yesterday announced its intent to nominate Michael Wynne for the job of under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate panel today the Defense Department would terminate a nascent futures market to predict terrorist attacks and their ramifications.
The nomination of Air Force Secretary James Roche to be Army secretary was sent yesterday to the Senate, the White House announced.
The fiscal year 2004 defense budget request contains $23.2 billion in funding for classified programs, the highest level since FY-98, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
The president today nominated Lt. Gen. John Abizaid to lead U.S. Central Command.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today said he has not yet given the president his recommendation for the next Army chief of staff, refuting suggestions that he handpicked a successor to Gen. Eric Shinseki more than a year ago.
Colin McMillan, a former assistant secretary of defense, is a leading candidate for the Navy secretary job, sources tell InsideDefense.com.
The Bush administration wants Air Force Secretary James Roche to be the next Army secretary, InsideDefense.com has learned.
Adm. William Fallon, the vice chief of naval operations, has been nominated by the president to command U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Fleet Forces Command, the Pentagon announced today.