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The U.S. Army has awarded a $6.7 billion firm, fixed-price production contract to Oshkosh Defense to build approximately 17,000 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.
A letter from California Congresswoman Jackie Speier to Air Force Secretary Deborah James demandes to know why the program cost for the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), or B-3, has jumped 76% in one...
The U.S. Navy is planning to test the carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, aboard the aircraft carrier Eisenhower during the first few weeks of October.
The Boeing Co.Four months ago the Government Accountability Office questioned the likelihood that The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) would be be able to perform enough testing on its KC-46A refueling tanker...
ThinkstockU.S. spending on national defense is tightening, but it is still a vast sum. Depending on what is counted, the grand total including items for retirement benefits, the Department of...
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force have announced a multiple-award contract with a ceiling of nearly $21 billion for Air Force Training Systems.
In order to make money you have to spend money. Among those who live by those words are defense contractors.
For the first time since 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense has updated its National Military Strategy.
The U.S. State Department recently approved two sales of military equipment to Lebanon: Tucano turboprop fighter planes and Hellfire II missiles.
According to the Federal Procurement Data System, the top 10 federal contractors in fiscal year 2014 raked about half of all dollars awarded.
Huntington Ingalls Industries confirmed late in the week that it received a $3.35 billion contract award for the detail design and construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy.
AcelRX announced that it entered into a contract with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command within the Department of Defense. The contract is worth up to $17 million.
At its investor conference Tuesday, Boeing executives outlined what lies ahead for the company and its investors.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office's review of the KC-46A program indicates that its cost has dropped 5.4%.
The Air Force needs to come up with a fleet of 350 new trainers at a time when the U.S. defense budget is under pressure both from lower appropriations and sequestration.