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The Defense Department yesterday issued a new acquisition rule that takes into account the challenges a contractor may face in developing new military technologies and ties those challenges to the contractor's profit from a Pentagon contract.
Just hours after a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashed in the North Carolina countryside killing all four Marines onboard, Defense Secretary William Cohen began putting together a "blue ribbon" panel to review the state of the Osprey program, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has determined the Marine Corps Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle is ready to begin engineering and manufacturing development, the service announced today.
The Navy has completed an environmental assessment of approximately 4,250 acres on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, clearing the way for transfer of the land to the government of Puerto Rico later this month.
The Navy has delayed a scheduled flight test of the kill vehicle that will form the heart of its Theater Wide missile defense system, according to an industry source.
The Navy announced today it has awarded three separate contracts with a potential total value of $1.3 billion for shore site and surface ship communications work.
The White House announced today that the United States was joining the United Kingdom, Germany and France in establishing formal diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
If the United States moves ahead with a National Missile Defense system, the move will have a destabilizing effect on arms control agreements around the world and could trigger responses from foreign countries that increase the threat of missile attack against the United States, according to a new report issued by the Council for a Livable World.
Lockheed Martin last month successfully dropped a laser guidance system the company plans to bid for an Air Force Paveway II GBU-16 contract next March.
The Navy announced late this afternoon that Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, MS, has been given the job of repairing the destroyer Cole, which was severely damaged during an Oct. 12 terrorist attack in the port of Aden, Yemen.
While all eyes are riveted on the recount of the presidential vote in Florida, the final results of the House and Senate elections yesterday suggest little movement among the men and women who will likely make up the defense congressional oversight committees in the 107th Congress.
President Clinton yesterday signed a $14.8 billion foreign operations appropriations bill that cuts $7 million from Clinton's $134 million request for peacekeeping operations.
A Northrop Grumman tiltrotor unmanned air vehicle crashed Saturday after successfully completing a 26-minute demonstration prototype flight test, the company and the Navy announced today.
Soon after signing the fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill into law, President Clinton sent a memorandum to Defense Secretary William Cohen explaining how he wants an equal employment opportunity complaint section of the bill carried out by the Defense Department.
President Clinton today signed a $309 billion fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill into law nearly one month after the start of the fiscal year.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vernon Clark announced today he has picked Rear Adm. Daniel Bowler to direct the Navy's warfare integration and assessment division.
House and Senate conferees have approved President Clinton's $55 million fiscal year 2001 request for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, which buys and ships heavy fuel to North Korea.
The Senate will soon consider a bill that would set up an inter-agency panel tasked with preparing the United States for bioterrorist attacks.
Following a 22-minute flight over the California desert this morning, Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter aircraft touched down at Edwards AFB, CA, completing what the company called a successful first flight test.
Gen. Yu Yongbo, a member of China's Central Military Commission, will make his first visit to the United States Wednesday as the head of a Chinese military delegation that will undertake an 11-day tour of U.S. military sites, the Pentagon announced today.