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Winning the U.S. Air Force contract for a new aerial refueling tanker was hard, but meeting the program's requirements may be even harder for Boeing.
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The U.S. Army plans to add 29 MQ-9 Reaper drones to its arsenal in the current fiscal year at a cost of more than $11 million per unit.
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Pentagon brass have approved the sale of nine of Boeing's P-8A Poseidon surveillance planes to the United Kingdom.
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The just announced delay will end up adding two years to the time it will take the new training jet to reach full operational capability.
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The U.S. Air Force has had a difficult time deciding what to do with its A-10 close-air support attack plane, known as the Warthog.
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A company called Texas Rare Earth Resources has located a source of rare earth minerals in Hudspeth County, Texas, about 85 miles southeast of El Paso.
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Boeing officials reportedly have told the U.S. Air Force that the company will take no further legal action to challenge the LRSB award to Northrop.
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A report in Defense News cites a source who said that Raytheon will announce on Monday, February 22, that it is joining Alenia in a bid for the training jet program.
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Lockheed Martin and its partner, Korean Aerospace, have been considering a clean-sheet design for a new U.S. Air Force training jet, the T-X.
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Boeing has successfully transferred 1,600 pounds of fuel from its new KC-46A tanker to an F-16 fighter jet during a flight over eastern Washington state.
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Lockheed Martin has announced that it has been awarded a second multiyear contract to deliver 78 C-130J Super Hercules airlifters to various branches of the U.S. government.
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Congress agreed early Friday on a $1.15 trillion federal budget for 2016, and about half the total spending was marked for the Department of Defense.
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On Tuesday the Government Accountability Office dismissed Lockheed's protest of the JLTV contract with Oshkosh.
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The 2017 defense budget is about $15 billion less than the Pentagon had planned on, and the generals and admirals are busy now trying to sort out what to keep and what to let go.
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On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that every job in the U.S. armed forces will be open for women to compete for and serve in.
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