The Office of the Secretary of Defense is crafting a policy that targets suspected counterfeit electronic parts in the Defense Department's supply chain.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is crafting a policy that targets suspected counterfeit electronic parts in the Defense Department's supply chain.
Sequestration cuts would hammer the Defense Department's top weapons programs, including the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship and the Air Force's new bomber, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers today.
The Air Force is nearly done cleaning up a virus found on "stand-alone systems" associated with remotely piloted aircraft operated out of Creech Air Force Base, NV, according to U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. Robert Kehler.
German military officials are moving forward with their plan to purchase four additional Euro Hawks following today's rollout ceremony of the Northrop Grumman aircraft system in Manching, Germany, according to an industry source.
Iraq is getting closer to adding 18 F-16 aircraft to its burgeoning air force following a delay sparked by the widespread uprising in the Middle East, according to a top Air Force commander stationed in Iraq.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) took another step toward achieving her two-tiered approach for creating an unmanned aerial vehicle corridor in her state this week when she met with defense industry officials at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference in Washington.
The push to cut costs in the Air Force's Global Hawk program has Raytheon executives eying a potential reduction to the price of the program's service life extension plan.
The Euro Hawk is en route to Manching, Germany, following a weather-related delay to its ferry flight plan.
Northrop Grumman officials say they plan to reschedule the ferry flight of the Euro Hawk remotely piloted aircraft for later this week.
Eight senators with a vested interest in the Air National Guard's C-27J program have told Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Air National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Craig McKinley that the Guard's C-27J basing program might be "unworkable."
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee today backed allegations that the House Armed Services Committee has inserted earmarks into its version of the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill.
The House Appropriations Committee wants to cut $435 million and 379 missiles from the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile program, according to documents reviewed by InsideDefense.com.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is picking a fight with the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee over what she claims is a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent a House earmark ban that prevents members from directing budget additions to the House defense authorization bill to specific localities and defense companies.
The Air Force has formally advised lawmakers that cost estimates for a $7.3 billion Pentagon weather satellite program -- the former National Polar-orbiting Observational Satellite System -- have breached statutory thresholds established to flag weapon system programs with possible acquisition difficulties.