Americas * As expected, Boeing announced the details of its impending reorganization. A new group called BDS Development will take over management of six major programs, including the KC-46 tanker. * The coming Air Force decision regarding the long-range strike bomber...
The deadline for USTACOM's 4th and final iteration of its JLTV RFP for Low Rate Initial Production and Full Rate Production has passed, and all three prime contractors have submitted their proposals. The Firm Fixed Price contract should last 3 years of LRIP followed...
The Secretary of the Navy issued letters of censure to three rear admirals - all of whom are retiring - for involvement in the "Fat Leonard" scandal that involved officers steering ships to particular port facilities in return for gifts and sexual favors. A review...
Typical of the stop-start volatility in an uncertain budget time that Ashton Carter referenced in his addresses to Congress, the Army is moving 180 degrees from its original position that the M1 tank fab lines should be cut from the budget. Congress objected, and the...
Perhaps learning from the expensive lessons of the present, designers of the future fighter F/A-XX may have reason to make stealth a lower priority. And, interestingly, the Chief of Naval Operations appears to agree. The limits imposed by stealth, coupled with extra...
Several newly-defined U.S. Major Defense Acquisition Programs appear to be taking a new approach to design, with the government managing teams of competing contractors during a design phase that is supposed to be better at choosing the best ideas and components,...
Refreshing the Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines will garner $10 billion in expenditures, split between research and long-lead-time procurement, over the next five years, according to the Future Years Defense Plan. After that, the real money really...
The Air Force, even while adding billions to procurement budgets, is putting off its Joint Stars ground surveillance aircraft to 2023. It had previously been hoping to field the new system in 2022. The Air Force has been fairly consistent in choosing fighters and...
In announcing the Administration's defense budget (expected to be much changed after going through the congressional sausage-making process), the Pentagon made a plaintive comment that if it doesn't get a budget of this magnitude, it will have to change its strategic...