Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) have asked the White House to approve two agreements that aim to support the production of Lockheed Martin-built F-16 fighter aircraft in India and
MorePoland has canceled plans to buy secondhand F-16 aircraft made in the U.S. to replace the Polish air force’s fleet of Russian-made fighter jets, DoD Buzz reported Friday. Richard Sisk writes Bartosz Kownacki, Polish deputy minister
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The U.S. Marine Corps will begin to test at least 50 technology platforms in April at Camp Pendleton in California as part of a technology demonstration that will last for nine months,
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The Government Accountability Office has found that the U.S. Air Forceâs $44 billion tanker modernization program that aims to replace a third of the service branchâs KC-135 aerial refueling planes with Boeing-built KC-46 aircraft has
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NASA plans to launch a technology demonstration of laser communications systems designed to increase the speed of data transmission between space vehicles and ground terminals. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration will be deployed in summer 2019 as part
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The U.S. Navy has established a new task force to assess the status of the military branch’s ocean science programs that encompass oceanographic infrastructure, technical workforce, technologies and their applications to naval operations. Navy oceanographer
MoreThe Defense Department has begun to develop strategies to prepare for and mitigate security threats from synthetic bioweapons, DoD News reported Thursday. Arthur Hopkins, acting assistant secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs
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The Government Accountability Office has found that the departments of Defense and State facilitated 194 security cooperation and assistance efforts during fiscal 2016 to help build foreign partners’ capacity to mitigate security-related threats. GAO said Friday DoD
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William Manger, formerly managing director at New York City-boutique investment bank Brock Capital Group, has returned to the Small Business Administration as associate administrator for the office of capital access. He will oversee the
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Maj. Gen. Scott West, deputy chief of staff for operations at the U.S. Air Force, has said the service branch wants to prioritize the assessment and retention of more airmen in an effort to
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