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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.
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.
Pentagon brass have approved the sale of nine of Boeing's P-8A Poseidon surveillance planes to the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Tuesday the Government Accountability Office dismissed Lockheed's protest of the JLTV contract with Oshkosh.
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.
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.