Aaron Mehta

Aaron Mehta was deputy editor and senior Pentagon correspondent for Defense News, covering policy, strategy and acquisition at the highest levels of the Defense Department and its international partners.


  • Commercial Space Eyes Greater Share
    Commercial Space Eyes Greater Share

    For years, commercial space providers have pushed the Pentagon for a bigger piece of the military space pie. If recent comments from top USAF officials are an indication, they may finally get their chance.

  • Better Buying Power’s Next Generation
    Better Buying Power’s Next Generation

    With Better Buying Power 3.0 out, what could the next generation look like?

  • Kendall Reviewing Thornberry Reform Bill
    Kendall Reviewing Thornberry Reform Bill

    The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer supports most of a House acquisition-reform bill, but he hopes to convince its sponsor to alter a section that would give military officials more power.

  • Better Buying Power: Closer Ties with Industry
    Better Buying Power: Closer Ties with Industry

    The Pentagon is looking to firm up its ties with industry as part of the Better Buying Power 3.0 initiative, formally launched Thursday after months of anticipation.

  • Kendall: New AF Bomber Will Compete Upgrades
    Kendall: New AF Bomber Will Compete Upgrades

    The US Air Force’s next-generation bomber program will compete the right to do future technology upgrades, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer told reporters Thursday.

  • Pentagon Begins Better Buying Power 3.0
    Pentagon Begins Better Buying Power 3.0

    After months of expectation, Pentagon officials officially ordered the implementation of Better Buying Power 3.0 Thursday afternoon.

  • Egypt Hellfire Buy OK’d Amidst Yemen Strikes
    Egypt Hellfire Buy OK’d Amidst Yemen Strikes

    An Egyptian procurement of 356 AGM-114K/R3 Hellfire II Missiles has been cleared by the State Department, the first new procurement since the White House lifted a freeze on weapon sales to that nation.

  • US: N. Korean Nuclear ICBM Achievable
    US: N. Korean Nuclear ICBM Achievable

    US intelligence believes North Korea is capable of miniaturizing a nuclear weapon and putting it on its KN-08 intercontinental ballistic missile

  • NORAD Head: Russian Bombers Send a Message
    NORAD Head: Russian Bombers Send a Message

    Russian bomber flights could expand to the Gulf of Mexico, the head of NORAD said Tuesday.

  • SecDef Carter Reasserts US Pacific Vision
    SecDef Carter Reasserts US Pacific Vision

    The Pacific remains “the defining region” for America’s future, despite the ongoing challenges in the Gulf and European regions, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Monday.