Wednesday, July 9, 2025
John Liang is managing editor of InsideDefense and Inside Missile Defense. He has been with the IWP Defense Group since 1997. He holds a master's degree in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University.
Northrop Grumman announced today the appointment of Robert Iorizzo as president of the company's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (ES3). Iorizzo succeeds James Roche, who was recently confirmed by the Senate as Air Force secretary.
The Defense Department has notified Congress that it will offer Poland F-16 aircraft and parts worth up to $4.3 billion if all options are exercised, sources told InsideDefense.com today.
The Pentagon today announced the appointment of Raymond DuBois to the new position of deputy under secretary of defense for installations and environment.
Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) said today he was "troubled" by news reports indicating that the Bush administration was contemplating deploying a rudimentary National Missile Defense by 2004.
Stable Pentagon budgets do not necessarily imply a stable defense industry, a Wall Street analyst and a private banker told participants at an acquisition reform conference yesterday.
Rockwell International's recent earnings slide will not affect the upcoming spin-off of its Collins avionics business unit, Rockwell International's chairman and chief executive officer assured investment analysts yesterday.
The Navy has awarded BAE Systems North America's applied technologies business unit a communications and electronics life-cycle support contract with a potential ceiling value of $64.1 million, the company announced today.
The White House today announced President Bush's choices for assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence as well as the director for defense research and engineering.
The size of the 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut signed into law earlier today by President Bush means any increased spending on defense and other national priorities will have to come from either dipping into Social Security and Medicare or cutting funds from other programs, according to a report by the Democratic staff of the House Budget Committee.
The Defense Department needs to conduct a "broad-based" review of its entire research and development policy, a former senior DOD official said yesterday.
The Pentagon's Iridium satellite arrangement, hammered out late last year before the constellation was shut down, is a result of lessons learned from the experience of the previous owner, an Iridium Satellite LLC official said yesterday.
Honeywell is targeting the F-16 fighter as a potential avenue for its new airborne satellite tactical communications system, a company official said yesterday.
Newport News Shipbuilding's board of directors today reaffirmed the company's wish to be taken over by General Dynamics instead of Northrop Grumman, according to a company announcement.
General Dynamics has extended its pending tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Newport News Shipbuilding to June 22, the company announced today.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travels to Europe next week hoping that Russia will show signs of being more amenable to U.S. plans to develop and deploy a National Missile Defense, a senior defense official said earlier today.
A technology as widespread and seemingly innocuous as electronic mail is increasingly being used to obtain sensitive information from defense contractors, warns a counterintelligence analyst.
U.S. officials investigating the bombing of the guided missile destroyer Cole have transferred their investigation from the Yemeni port of Aden to the country's capital city of Sana'a, a State Department official said today.
Intellectual property issues will be increasingly important for defense contractors who want to explore commercial applications for technologies developed for the Defense Department, a former senior DOD official said today.
The Air Force has awarded Boeing's information and surveillance systems business unit a $7 billion contract to sustain the service's Airborne Warning and Control System, the Pentagon announced today.
The Navy will delay its decision on which contractor team will win a multibillion-dollar contract for its 21st-century land-attack destroyer pending the results of ongoing internal Defense Department reviews.