JASSM-ER from B-1B(click to view full) The 2,000 pound AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is intended to be a stealthy, inexpensive GPS/IIR (Global Positioning system/ Imaging InfraRed) guided cruise missile that lets American aircraft attack...
* Commander of US Fleet Forces Admiral J. C. Harvey, Jr. thinks that actions undertaken to reverse a trend [PDF] of degrading fleet readiness are starting to pay off. Challenges remain though, including Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), a mission that is "complex and...
* When you scrub the Pentagon's budget hard enough, you find money that was not spent and can either be de-obligated, reallocated through rescissions, or has to be returned to the Treasury (in the case of expired accounts [PDF]). This happens on the margins of budgets...
"Need a tow?"(click to view full) Problems with USS New York [LPD 21] reportedly have the US Navy scrutinizing every ship built in the class' 2 shipyards. Unfortunately, it's just the latest installment in a long string of basic workmanship issues. In March 2005,...
* President Obama signed the Sequestration Transparency Act (H.R. 5872), a bill that compels his administration to submit to Congress a detailed report on sequestration within the next 30 days. * Pratt & Whitney Canada may have settled with the US Department of...
* The White House picked Rear Admiral James Syring to replace Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly as the head of the Missile Defense Agency. A few weeks ago a report from the Pentagon's inspector general described O'Reilly as an irascible manager, to put it...
* India's Ministry of Defence announced last week that it was easing offset rules, confirming earlier reports that Transfer of technology (ToT) would be made eligible for offsets. The policy is effective since August 1 and a new office - the Defense Offset Management...
* Given the high number of Chinese military aircraft that have not been produced several years after first exhibiting models, Richard Fisher, Jr. from the International Assessment and Strategy Center thinks [PDF] the vaporware label is often - though not always -...
Brazilian AAV-7(click to view full) In August 2012, the US DSCA announced [PDF] Brazil's official request to buy 26 Assault Amphibious Vehicles with Reliability, Availability and Maintainability/ Rebuild to Standard modifications (AAV RAM/RS), including ancillary...