Gates 'Very Hopeful' of Two Tanker Bids It's a bit mushy, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today that he is "very hopeful" that we will have two competitors"...
Bomber, Spy Plane, UAV It could be a long range strike platform. It could use SAR and electro-optical sensors to spy on an enemy. About the only...
JSF Costs Rocket 50 Percent The Pentagon will tell Congress that the Joint Strike Fighter is roughly 50 percent more expensive than it was in 2002 and...
JSF Price Jumps to $135 Million At the end of what has been a truly positive week for Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter, witnessing a number of key...
How Much Will JSF Cost? <em>When the Pentagon's top buyer appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, most observers expected Ash Carter to tell</em>...
Major Failings In Army Spin Outs The Army took another beating on the Hill over its FCS spin out technologies. They failed repeatedly in recent field tests...
GE/RR Claims $20B JSF Savings <strong>UPDATED: Hill Worries "Manhood" Means Gates Won't Listen; Pratt Calls It "Distraction"</strong> Clearly responding to the persistent...
Schwartz Shoots Down COIN Plane The Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, shot down his own idea of a light attack aircraft for irregular wars...
Bigger Bang for Afghan Border Cops <em>Our colleague Christian Lowe <a href="http://www.military.com/features/afghanistan-war-report/" target="_blank">is embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan</a></em><em> and sends us this dispatch from FOB Salerno near the</em>...
Gates Gone Early Next Year? One of the defense world's favorite parlor games is guessing when a Defense Secretary will depart and why. The departure of...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
Overseas Troops to See Fewer Sweets, More Sweet Potatoes on Their Holiday Tables This Year For some unexplained reason, the Defense Logistics Agency is shipping 800% more sweet potatoes overseas than it did last...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
