Service members with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) 2nd Air Defense Missile Group, set up the MIM-104 Patriot missile system during Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) deployment training at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Aug. 29, 2017. PAC-3 is a surface-to-air missile defense system, which provides a highly reactive hit-to-kill capability in both range and altitude while operating in all environments. Photo by Cpl. Aaron Henson/U.S. Marine Corps.

Army continues push for integrated sensors and shooters with latest IBCS contract

The brain behind the Army’s future air and missile defense command-and-control system, IBCS is considered an essential component of future multidomain operations

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DoD hands out $7.54 billion in year-end contract bonanza

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Australia already operates a fleet of Wedgetails, and a small number of British Royal Air Force personnel have been training on the aircraft since mid-year. (Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Britain confirms talks with Boeing over potential $2.6B Wedgetail aircraft buy

The talks with Boeing about raising U.K. content on the aircraft are an effort to head off likely criticism over handing yet another major contract to the U.S. defense giant without holding a competition and with little in the way of work coming to local industry.

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The Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Waller (SSG 75), a Collins-class diesel-electric submarine, is seen in Sydney Harbour on November 2, 2016. Australia on April 2016 awarded French contractor DCNS, now Naval Group, the main contract to design and build its next generation of submarines to replace its current fleet of six Collins-class vessels. The company is now negotiating the strategic partnering agreement, which is a critical step toward building the diesel-electric boats. (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)

Naval Group: Talks with Australia still underway for sub buy

Naval Group sought to play down media reports of a potential collapse of talks for a major contract with Australia for 12 ocean-going submarines.

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An F-35C maneuvers after landing on the flight deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln, operating off the coast of Virginia. (Staff photo by David B. Larter)

F-35 upgrade plan awaiting approval from top Pentagon acquisition exec

A decision on the strategy, which includes the F-35 program office's new agile software methodology, could be greenlighted within weeks.

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RAF Squadron Leader Andy Edgell sits in the cockpit of a new F35B Lightning fighter jet as he prepares to take off from the HMS Queen Elizabeth as it sails at sea in the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast, on September 27, 2018. The carrier is currently participating in flight trials with two new F35-B's and eventually be able to embark up to 24 of the supersonic jets. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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