Michigan bids to become America’s arsenal of rapid defense innovation
Michigan is making a pitch to be America’s factory floor for the future of warfare.
By Jen Judson
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Cummings fine-tunes Hellhound drone for Golden Dome mission
Cummings Aerospace has designed a larger version of its Hellhound to meet Golden Dome homeland missile defense needs.
By Jen Judson
Huntington Ingalls to buy Alion Science and Technology for $1.65 billion
Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced an agreement to buy Alion Science and Technology for $1.65 billion in cash from Veritas Capital ― the latest in a string of acquisitions for the military shipbuilding titan.
By Joe Gould
Big screen to battlefield: How sci-fi can inspire next-generation weaponry
Directed energy has captivated science fiction fans for decades, but we must not allow a failure of imagination to prevent us from converting directed energy from movie magic to military might before our adversaries.
By Henry A. “Trey” Obering III
Robins looks to bring home the BACN under new Air Force proposal
If Congress signs off on the proposal, Robins would get a squadron of nine E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft.
Pentagon’s top IT official: More coordination needed on weapon systems and critical infrastructure cybersecurity
“What keeps me up at night are cyberthreats of the kind we’re seeing across the country — not only against the government, but against the private sector.”
By Andrew Eversden
Pentagon official placed on leave over allegations of unauthorized release of classified info
Since early 2019, Katie Arrington has been working as chief information officer for the Acquisition and Sustainment Office at the Defense Department, overseeing a cybersecurity initiative.
Smith slams F-35 lifecycle costs: ‘We can do a hell of a lot better’
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith on Tuesday criticized Lockheed Martin and others over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter over its exorbitant lifecycle costs.
By Joe Gould
House appropriators want more cargo helos for US Army in FY22
House appropriators' funding of the CH-47F Block II Chinook cargo helicopter in its FY22 spending bill sets up another year of support for a procurement program for which the Army has little appetite.
By Jen Judson
Democratic appropriators want to spend more on weapons procurement than Biden
House appropriators proposed $1.7 billion more for weapons procurement and $1.6 billion less for development and testing of cutting-edge technologies meant to deter China.
By Joe Gould
Nothing left in the tank: The state of the Pentagon’s supply chain
The defense-industrial base's supply chain is barely able to keep pace and must be incentivized to create surge capacity, according to the authors of this commentary.
By Andrew Gonzalez and Stephen Rodriguez
Moderate Democrats rebuke defense budget cuts
Leaders of the House’s Blue Dog Coalition say they oppose calls to fund any less than the requested $753 billion national defense budget.
By Joe Gould