AUSA 2018: Here's What Soldiers Need to Know Some of this year's forum topics include readiness, lethality and sustainment, recruiting, and retention.
Lockheed Martin, Pentagon Strike New F-35 Deal at Lowest Prices Yet Prices on the next crop of F-35s will be 5 to 11 percent less than previous rates, DoD officials announced Friday.
Air Force Picks Boeing to Make Its Next Trainer The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $9.2B contract to build the service's next aircraft for training future pilots.
Marine Leaders' Plea to Companies: Get Us Our Gear Faster Some of the Marine Corps' top acquisition officers had strong words for contractors about the need to move gear into...
General to Army Aviators: 'Quit Apologizing' and Ask for What You Need Retired Gen. James Thurman recently told Army aviation officials they've got to "quit apologizing" to the Pentagon.
Air Force Doubles Down on Hypersonic Weapons Development with 2nd Contract The move comes after Pentagon officials said in recent months they fear the U.S. may be lagging behind in hypersonics.
Sig Gets $48 Million Pentagon Contract for Continuous Rifle Suppression A DoD project to optimize the M4A1s used by U.S. Special Operations Command for continuous suppressed use is moving forward.
Air Force Takes First Steps to Buy New Light Attack Fleet The U.S. Air Force has taken the initial steps to buy commercial, off-the-shelf aircraft for its light attack fleet.
Air Force Formalizes $3.9 Billion Air Force One Deal with Boeing The U.S. Air Force last wawarded Boeing the latest in a series of contracts to deliver two Air Force One aircraft by 2024.
US Fighters May Carry StormBreaker Foul-Weather Bomb by Next Year Testing for Raytheon’s Stormbreaker precision-guided bomb is "going so well" it may be fielded earlier than expected.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...