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The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) of top weapons buyers recertified the tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program during a Feb. 21 meeting, but high sustainment costs might force the Pentagon to slow production down further or trim flight hours for aircrew, a senior defense official said.
John Jumper, who spent four years as the Air Force chief of staff, will be taking the reins at SAIC beginning in March, the company announced Feb. 21.
BEIJING — The U.S. special envoy on North Korea on Feb. 22 welcomed Pyongyang’s return to bilateral talks so soon after Kim Jong Il’s death, as he prepared to meet a delegation from the isolated state.
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The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) met Feb. 21 to discuss the tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, a defense official confirmed.
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.
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The U.S. Air Force’s F-35A version of the tri-service Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has begun flight testing with external stores at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., plane-maker Lockheed Martin said Feb. 20.
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.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer warned Feb. 19 that intervention in Syria would be “very difficult” and said it would be “premature” to arm the besieged country’s opposition movement.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military commander said he believed it would be “premature” to take military action against Iran in response to its nuclear program in an interview to be aired Feb. 19.
WASHINGTON — A “good number” of unmanned U.S. military and intelligence drones are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military’s attacks against opposition forces and civilians, NBC News reported.
WASHINGTON — The Afghan defense minister warned late Feb. 17 that a U.S. proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more than one-third after 2014 could lead to a catastrophe.
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. member states agreed Feb. 17 on steps to move toward completion in July of a global treaty limiting the global arms trade, participants in a preparatory meeting said.
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.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has placed a hold on the nomination of Mark Lippert to become the Pentagon’s top official for Asia.
A group of U.S. House Republican lawmakers have written to President Barack Obama to register their strong opposition to reducing the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile.
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Harris Corp. will show off a new ruggedized Android tablet designed to keep soldiers better connected on the battlefield at the upcoming Association of the U.S. Army winter symposium.
The U.S. Defense Department needs to be more open to purchasing foreign-made weapons and equipment, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.
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.
The U.S. Air Force has no immediate need of an MQ-X next-generation replacement for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat aircraft, the service’s intelligence chief said.
Three military heroes — two of whom received the Medal of Honor for their actions — and two Midwestern cities were honored Feb. 15 when U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced a batch of new ship names.
For the next round of negotiations with Russia on nuclear weapon reductions, the United States would like to focus on nondeployed nuclear weapons and what are known as nonstrategic or “tactical” nuclear weapons, according to State Department officials.
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.
The Pentagon has slowed down its purchases of the new AIM-120D version of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) because of problems with producing its rocket motors, the U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition official said.
The U.S. Defense Department is banking on international sales of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter over the next five years to keep the program cost stable, according to a senior Pentagon official.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called for more “transparency” from China’s military and expanding security ties between the two powers as he hosted leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Feb. 14.
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.
OTTAWA — Canadian and German defense ministers on Feb. 14 announced a deal to allow the Canadian military to set up a hub at the Koln-Bonn Airport to expand its global reach.
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Afghan officials are weeks away from clinching a security pact allowing an American military mission to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Feb. 14.
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.
WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. envoy will hold talks this month in Beijing with North Korea, resuming a dialogue put on hold last year by the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, the State Department said Feb. 13.
SINGAPORE — Boeing said Feb. 13 it hopes to decide in the next few months whether to put a scaled-down version of the P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft’s mission system into a smaller platform.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. special operations officer, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels, The New York Times reported Feb. 13.
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