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The increase in defense spending under Pakistan's new defense budget is largely consumed by wages and the cost of anti-insurgency operations, analysts say, providing little real increase for the military.
Efforts to transform the way Britain buys military equipment and services took another step forward last week as the government published an acquisition white paper promising efficiency savings from single-source contracts, and outlined plans for the poss
Conflicted by the need to reduce training costs while retaining a cutting edge among its fast jet crews, the French Air Force is preparing to introduce a two-tier pilot readiness policy, and Chief of Staff Gen.
The US Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday approved a Pentagon authorization bill that matches the White House's nearly $527 billion 2014 military budget request.
Israel's Defense Ministry is asking the US government to guarantee billions of dollars in low-interest bridge loans for a Pentagon-proposed package of V-22 Ospreys, F-15 radars and precision-strike weaponry that it ultimately intends to fund with future m
Sequestration spending reductions will cut $15.8 billion from the US Defense Department's 2013 budget, according to a Pentagon report.
An amendment to reduce the statutory requirement that the US Navy keep 11 aircraft carriers in service was defeated June 13, first by voice vote and then by a recorded vote of 318-106.
The Italian government has taken a step toward longer-term procurement planning by publishing its first three-year defense budget while also providing much greater detail on funding.
Pakistan's new government announced Wednesday a 10 percent increase in defense spending a week after taking office, despite a crippling budget deficit of 8.8 percent.
Republicans and Democrats sparred for hours Wednesday over deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending before approving a nearly $513 billion military spending bill.
Keeping its US $10 billion Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) program on the shelf, the Indian Ministry of Defense instead will accelerate the upgrade of its Russian-made BMP-2 infantry combat vehicles and will issue tenders to buy 2,000 engines fo
The head of US Strategic Command made the case this morning that STRATCOM cannot be viewed simply as the nuclear arm of the Pentagon.
A US House panel has put forth language that would cut $3.4 billion from the Pentagon's 2014 base budget request, while increasing funding by $5.3 billion for the war effort in Afghanistan.
In an extremely rare set-up for a defense contract here, Turkey's procurement authorities have launched a competition involving two Turkish and two Western companies.
A powerful US House oversight panel has rejected a Pentagon request to shift more than $442 million within its 2013 budget.
Britain's Ministry of Defence reckons it can save £200 million (US $311.1 million) a year by setting up an independent procurement body to oversee single-source contracts awarded to industry.
Pro-military House Republicans and Barack Obama, the Democratic president with whom they so often are at odds, have something in common after all. Neither side appears interested in voiding deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending in fiscal 2014.
NATO's chief is worried that the alliance lacks military readiness in crucial areas and is urging European members to do more, Germany's Spiegel news weekly reported Sunday, citing an internal document.
South African arms manufacturer Denel Dynamics says it is working toward producing a family of surface-to-air and air-to-air defense missiles amid a larger push to expand collaboration with nations in South America, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere in
The House Armed Services Committee has approved a 2014 defense authorization bill that largely adopts the Obama administration's Pentagon buying plans and ignores the next year of sequestration.
Pentagon officials in the coming weeks will examine how to modify the US Defense Department's 2014 budget proposal if sequestration spending caps remain in place.
A key House panel on Wednesday gave a needed endorsement to the embattled F-35 fighter program, killing a measure that would have slapped restrictions on its budget.
The US House Armed Services Committee is raising new concerns about the Littoral Combat Ship program and is urging the Navy to spend more annually on new ships.
A US House subcommittee wants to give the Pentagon $70 million next year to begin construction of a controversial missile shield, moving it one step closer to becoming reality.
Two Indian companies have declined to participate in a US $1 billion tender to supply quick reaction surface-to-air missiles (QRSAMs), dealing a setback to efforts to expand domestic involvement in big-ticket defense projects.
The US House Armed Services Committee is pressing the Air Force to spell out how it intends to replace the National Guard's MQ-1 Predator aircraft with newer MQ-9 Reapers.
The Polish Ministry of Defense is aiming to purchase middle-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, the ministry's Armament Inspectorate said in a statement.
The US House Armed Services Committee wants to boost Pentagon war funding for 2014 by $5 billion, aiming to boost military readiness.
A US House panel dominated by pro-military Republicans has approved a 2014 spending bill that would give the Pentagon more than $3 billion less than President Barack Obama is seeking.
Old Issues Resurface as Commission Studies Future of the Service
With pressure on US defense contractors to cut costs and government research-and-development (R&D) spending facing new budget realities, the intelligence community is increasingly leaning on commercial companies to provide needed R&D, moving away from pas
Congress and the Pentagon must substantially slow skyrocketing military personnel and infrastructure costs or the Defense Department's procurement accounts will suffer deep cuts, say more than two dozen analysts.
Don't expect clear resolutions to several politically thorny issues when you dive into the version of a Pentagon policy bill unveiled on Monday by US House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard 'Buck' McKeon.
A simmering election-year scandal around German Chancellor Angela Merkel's defense minister over a botched drone deal threatens to boil over this week when he testifies before lawmakers.
The size of the Pentagon's vast oversight organizations grew by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2012, despite efforts to pare down the US Defense Department's bureaucracy, a Defense News analysis has found.
Rome's annual military parade to mark Republic Day was given an austerity make-over on Sunday, proceeding without the usual spectacular air shows or tank displays in a sign of the times in recession-hit Italy.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wants to trim the fat across the Defense Department, and he's starting with his office at the Pentagon.
According to a report by the Senate's standing committee on defense released Thursday, the Pakistan Air Force has suspended its upgrade and development plan due to a lack of funds.
Signs of the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration are everywhere in Washington, but on Wall Street it's a different story.
The final stage in transforming how Britain's Defence Ministry manages everything from its naval bases to accommodations and catering is set to kick off this month, as industry submits final bids to become the Defence Infrastructure Organisation's (DIO) s
More than 120 U.S. lawmakers are urging Army brass to reverse a plan under which the service would stop buying Abrams tanks for three years.
After years of not preparing for mandated sequestration spending cuts, the Pentagon is now incorporating different levels of budget reductions in its future planning.
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The Indian Defence Ministry has reissued a tender to buy 100 armored personnel carriers (APCs), slightly easing the requirements from 2009's failed tender.
Israel’s Defense Ministry is slightly ahead of schedule in a 10-year government-mandated plan to save 30 billion shekels (US $8.4 billion) through 2017, but no thanks, uniformed officers say, to the ministry’s high-priced contract with an international consulting firm.
A feisty US House Armed Services Committee Democrat put supporters of a controversial missile defense program on notice Wednesday, saying bluntly she plans to finally kill it.
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.
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