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The new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest and most expensive ship in the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding program, with a total price tag to develop and build the ship topping $15 billion. And the cost is rising for the ship, the first of a new class of nuclear-powered carriers likely to remain in production for several decades.
The U.S. Defense Department carefully selected the programs it wants to cancel in fiscal 2013 to avoid termination fee negotiations that have plagued the Pentagon in prior years.
The U.S. Army is hoping foreign sales will be sufficient to keep tank factories up and running until the Army needs them again in 2017.
The dangers of sequestration. Not enough ships. The rise of China. The efficacy of using alternative fuels in ships and aircraft.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is rejecting plans by wireless broadband firm LightSquared to build a 4G network on spectrum adjacent to Global Positioning System signals.
NEW DELHI — India and Saudi Arabia will explore the joint development and production of weapons and equipment to control rising imports.
ROME — Italy will cut its acquisition of Joint Strike Fighters from 131 to 90, Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola told the Italian Parliament on Feb 15.
BRASILIA — Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Wednesday that Brazil may make a decision on awarding a multibillion-dollar contract for 36 fighter jets in the first half of this year.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper opened the door Feb. 14 for a possible cut in the number of F-35 fighter jets Canada will buy, after reports that the United States was scaling back its purchase plans.
The U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition official singled out the service’s Boeing KC-46 tanker and its new Long Range Strike bomber for praise during a speech at a defense conference in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 14.
SINGAPORE — China’s defense budget will double between 2011 and 2015 and outstrip the combined spending of all other key defense markets in the Asia-Pacific region, global research group IHS said Feb. 14.
BERN — The Swiss government is standing by its choice of the Gripen jet to replace its ageing fighter fleet, the defense ministry said on Feb. 14, after reported military fears that the aircraft was not up to the job.
The U.S. Army plans to buy fewer trucks and terminate a handful of smaller procurement programs to meet its budget targets for the next five years, the service announced Feb. 13.
The Pentagon says it will save $75 billion over the next five years by reorganizing its investment spending, according to spending figures for the fiscal 2013 budget proposal released Feb. 13.
The new U.S. Air Force 2013 budget proposal trims the service’s spending to $154.3 billion, down from $162.5 billion the year before.
The White House has proposed capping war spending at $450 billion over the next decade, U.S. Defense Department officials said on Feb. 13.
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