* The Pentagon released its annual report to congress on China's military developments [PDF]. Some highlights: "Dealing with a potential contingency in the Taiwan Strait remains the PLA's primary mission despite an overall reduction of cross-Strait tensions [...]...
* The US Navy's Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) will hold an industry day on additive manufacturing (AM) on July 24 in Solomons, MD. They don't have a program of record for 3D printing just yet, but are interested in R&D demonstrations to develop a roadmap for how...
* Eliot Engel [D-NY], Ranking Member of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 2 other congressmen wrote last week to NATO's Secretary General, urging the alliance to buy France's 2 Vladivostok (Mistral) Class LHD ships as a pooled asset, instead of selling...
* During a trip to Poland President Obama announced he'd seek congressional backing for a "European Reassurance Initiative" worth up to $1B within the FY15 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request, which his Administration has yet to submit almost 4 months after...
* Maj. Gen Zhu Chenghu, from China's National Defense University, while talking about the US power projection abilities, doubled down on the sort of brazen declarations that are increasingly fashionable among Chinese officials: "we can see from the situation in...
Predator XP Concept(click to view full) With MQ-1 Predator UAVs fading from the marketplace as advanced customers turn to the MQ-9 Reaper, General Atomics is moving to broaden the type's appeal. At IDEX 2011, they announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE's...
* Eric Shinseki resigned this morning as Veteran Affairs secretary. With tepid support from the White House after yesterday's interim report from the VA's Inspector General and bipartisan calls for his resignation, there was little else he could do. He made a final...
Colombian K-767 MMTT(click to view full) Brazil took long enough to modernize its future fighter fleet, and they're waiting even longer to modernize another important air force capability. Their KC-137 Boeing 707 derivatives were built in the 1960s, and Brazil took...
WCMD Launched In June 2012, the US DSCA announced South Korea's formal request to buy up to 367 CBU-105D/B Wind Corrected Munition Dispenser (WCMD) Sensor Fuzed Weapons and associated parts, equipment, logistical support and training, for an estimated cost of up to...