The LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile system is progressing toward flight testing, now-former Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter told Inside Defense, even as officials re-baseline the program.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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The LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile system is progressing toward flight testing, now-former Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter told Inside Defense, even as officials re-baseline the program.
After weeks of testing, Bradley Fighting Vehicle crews have a new layer of protection, a test officer said in a Jan. 16 Army press release.
The Army's concerted effort to ramp up its ammunition capacity in response to the Russia-Ukraine war over the last three years will have key global implications regardless of the Trump administration's approach to Ukraine, Doug Bush said last week as he exited his role of assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.
Rollout of the mine countermeasures mission package on the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship remains on track for later this fiscal year, a Navy official confirmed this week.
More than a decade after the fiscal year 2013 sequestration, the Air Force's foundational accounts are still recovering from negative impacts to readiness, modernization and operations and maintenance.
The Defense Department is working to implement internal reforms to its 1960s-era budget planning and execution process, but the Pentagon is still asking Congress for greater spending flexibility that appropriators have thus far declined to provide.
The Defense Department and Small Business Administration on Friday published the names of all but one of 18 licensed and "green light approved" funds forming the first cohort of the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative.
The Navy completed a first-of-its-kind test last month when an unmanned surface vessel was refueled without the help of any onboard personnel in a demonstration that marks a step forward for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program.
The Navy is eyeing as many as 80 SPY-6 sensor sets for the surface warfare fleet as well as foreign navies as part of a potential nine-year buying plan beginning in fiscal year 2027 that will shape a multibillion-dollar, air-and-missile defense contest the government hopes will draw more than the first production lot's single bid.
The Defense Department is working to implement internal reforms to its 1960s-era budget planning and execution process, but the Pentagon is still asking Congress for greater spending flexibility that appropriators have thus far declined to provide.
The Navy completed a first-of-its-kind test last month when an unmanned surface vessel was refueled without the help of any onboard personnel in a demonstration that marks a step forward for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program.
More than a decade after the fiscal year 2013 sequestration, the Air Force's foundational accounts are still recovering from negative impacts to readiness, modernization and operations and maintenance.
