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Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a $1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country's maritime territory against 'bullies' amid an ever-worsening dispute with China.
In its first swipe at the 2013 defense authorization bill, the House Seapower subcommittee approved a new cost cap for the US Navy's Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and rejected again a service request to decommission nine ships as an economy measure.
The first portion of a major Pentagon policy bill unveiled Tuesday by a key House committee excludes any mention of a controversial East Coast missile shield proposal.
The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve $79.4 billion for combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014 .
The French defense industry — facing a global marketplace where major spenders are confronting budget uncertainty and emerging markets are swarmed by companies aggressively competing for any growth opportunity — appears to be turning to an old environment
As warships get sleeker and stealthier, the head of the Italian Navy wants to buck the trend and plan a one-size-fits-all warship that will be cheap, roomy and dual use, even making space for containers on deck.
Senior US Defense Department officials are expected to present three budget-cutting scenarios to the defense secretary when they wrap up a wide-ranging review of military strategy at the end of this month, according to sources.
Asia-Pacific nations are modernizing their surface and underwater naval capabilities by buying stealthy warships, attack submarines, patrol vessels, sensors, radars, missiles and unmanned systems.
A slew of politically charged scandals threatens to derail a sweeping fiscal deal with Senate Republicans that would address sequestration's defense budget cuts.
The acquisition of Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicle took a step closer yesterday with the Australian government announcement that it would issue a letter of request to the US for pricing and availability data.
New Zealand's spending on defense is little changed from the NZ $2.9 billion (then US $2.2 billion) for 2012-2013 to NZ $2.87 billion for 2013-2014.
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Pentagon spending reductions are hurting the US economy more than other spending cuts mandated under sequestration, say House Democrats, who appear poised to inject such effects into the 2014 midterm election narrative.
Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his government to pass, by close of business Monday, a 2013-2014 budget that includes some US $14.7 billion in defense spending, nearly $1 billion less than 2012 levels but $280 million more than cuts prescribed by the Israeli Treasury.
The Pentagon could save double the amount of cuts mandated under sequestration and avoid eroding its combat power, says a report released Monday.
The onetime target of early August for passing sweeping fiscal legislation that once filled US Senate corridors is slowly being replaced by a consensus that striking a 'grand bargain' could prove difficult.
France is looking to sell naval company DCNS to electronics specialist Thales and broker a partnership between Nexter and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in a bid to beat a budget crunch and slim down the land weapons sector, a source briefed on the subject said.
Canada's special operations forces will try once again to purchase a new fleet of vehicles for long-range reconnaissance patrols and urban warfare.
The Pentagon will oversee two White House-backed manufacturing institutes, one focusing on digitizing the manufacturing process and another on producing lightweight, modern metals.
The joint US Army/Marine Corps Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program may see its testing schedule pushed back by as much as four months by the end of this fiscal year, top Army leadership testified on Capitol Hill on May 8.
A new industry report warns of a coming U.S. national security crisis that could be spawned by a 'growing and dangerous' reliance on combat system components and raw materials purchased from foreign sources.
Even congressional Democrats, typically less hawkish than their GOP cohorts, are beginning to talk about a proposed East Coast missile shield as if it's a done deal.
Citing sequester and budget challenges, the arm of the Defense Department overseeing security clearances for contractors is cutting how much time people have to request so-called periodic reinvestigations.
The Pentagon wants Congress to give it more freedom to transfer money between accounts as it grapples with the fallout from federal spending cuts.
The White House and senior Republican lawmakers acknowledge they remain far apart on a 'grand bargain' fiscal deal to address the defense sequester cuts.
Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the US Navy's top officer said before a trip to the region.
The US Air Force has requested $841 million in the fiscal 2014 budget for tactical missiles, a jump of nearly $200 million from proposed 2013 levels.
In another sign of tough times in France, the government has been told to cut the size of the Republican Guard, the elite unit that provides the pomp and ceremony on state occasions.
For years, the Pentagon has been working to move funding from temporary war spending accounts into the base budget, particularly for brick-and-mortar efforts that were borne out of a decade of counterinsurgency fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq — and will
US Lawmakers are expected to battle over armed drones, softening the blow of military budget cuts and a controversial missile defense shield as they craft Pentagon policy legislation for fiscal 2014.
With the uncertainty surrounding the US Defense Department's budget, it's no wonder Robert Hale, the Pentagon comptroller, has worked just about every day since January.
Shipping $28 billion worth of equipment out of Afghanistan over the next year and a half won't be easy — or cheap.
Australia announced plans to purchase 12 new-build Boeing EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft although it affirmed its commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Two prominent US senators say there is 'no sign' Congress will pass the kind of sweeping fiscal bill that would void or lessen $500 billion in Pentagon cuts already being implemented.
Defense spending cuts are starting to take a toll on the economy, further slowing a sluggish jobs recovery.
The US joint venture that builds the Javelin anti-tank missile came through town recently to introduce a new senior executive, underscoring American industry's hot pursuit of a contract for a medium-range weapon for the French Army, sources briefed on the
Sixteen US House Republicans say they will clear the Pentagon to begin building an East Coast missile shield, and are urging a key colleague to write the check.
US President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that political factors are complicating efforts to garner enough Republican votes to pass broad fiscal legislation that would void more military cuts.
France will cut 24,000 civilian and military posts and slow down equipment deliveries in the coming years as it seeks to maintain a full spectrum of capabilities and to meet budgetary constraints, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said April 29.
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In the two weeks since the White House submitted its pre-sequester fiscal 2014 budget request to Congress, defense giants BAE Systems and General Dynamics have organized large groups of their suppliers to storm Capitol Hill to put a human face on the pote
Speaking at an April 25 debate about the state of the world, a senior official made an impassioned plea for more convergence among European military forces while another was skeptical about the prospects for European defense cooperation and castigated Chi
The French state raised another $921 million (€707 million) from the sale of a 2.1 percent stake in EADS to investors, the economy ministry said in a statement.
The British government plans to hand over the first phase of a scheme to outsource the management of its £14 billion-a-year (U.S.
Senators clash over majority leader's sequester measure.
Israel's Defense Ministry is maneuvering to blunt the force-damaging effects of proposed, government-wide spending cuts that threaten to slash the nation's shekel-based defense budget by nearly 10 percent through 2014.
Top US Army leadership told lawmakers Tuesday that they'll need three more years of supplemental war funding after the final US troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan to pay for massive postwar equipment reset activities.
After months of dire warnings and political theater, the first sequestration-era Pentagon budget plan has landed on Capitol Hill like a feather floating onto a soft mattress.
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