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QinetiQ wins USAF contract for airborne WiPPR technology

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation March 9, 2017

QinetiQ North America (QNA) has secured a contract to supply its wind profiling portable radar (WiPPR) technology to the US Air Force Life Cycle Manag...

More Powerful Helicopter Engines Among Army’s Top Priorities

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation March 9, 2017

U.S. Army leaders recently told lawmakers that the plan to equip Black Hawks and Apaches with the Improved Turbine Engine Program, or ITEP, remains in...

2018 Budget Battle Between Defense, Budget Hawks Begins; Nukes Top Priority

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation March 9, 2017

CAPITOL HILL: The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee thinks President Trump’s 2018 spending plan is dead on arrival and h...

Deals this week: Raytheon, L-3 Communications, MBDA

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation March 2, 2017

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base has awarded a $1.1bn-worth contract to Raytheon to provide an A/N FPS-132 Block 5 e...

Air Force conference kicks off; Trump’s defense budget; Q with Airbus’ U.S. boss, and more.

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation March 2, 2017

McCain, Thornberry Decry Trump Pentagon Budget Boost

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 27, 2017

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is pledging “an historic increase in defense spending” of $54 billion to $603 billion for the fisc...

Air Force Chief: Lack of Defense Budget More Dangerous Than Any Enemy

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 24, 2017

The chief of staff of the Air Force on Thursday warned decision-makers that failing to pass a defense budget will damage his service like no foreign e...

Deals this week: ELTA North America, Teradyne, Leonardo

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 23, 2017

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center based at Hanscom Air Force Base has awarded a contract to ELTA North America Inc. for man-portable aeria...

Smart Mines, A Smaller Army, & The Trump Buildup That Won’t Happen: Winnefeld

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 23, 2017

SAN DIEGO: Trump’s promised defense budget boost probably won’t materialize, the former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said today, so w...

Budget Woes May Force Navy to Shutter Two Carrier Air Wings

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 9, 2017

If the Pentagon must contend with a year-long continuing resolution that keeps funding levels flat — or if Congress can’t pass a su...

This week in Congress: Military readiness hearings preview budget fights

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Latest News, Legislation February 7, 2017

By: Leo Shane III, February 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — Lawmakers will unofficially begin their annual defense budget work this week with a pair of hearings...

Congress May Pass $18 Billion in More Defense Funds

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 6, 2017

Early next month, Congress expects to receive a supplemental defense budget request from the White House that House Armed Services Committee Chairman ...

Deals this week: Boeing Aerospace, Environmental Tectonics, Gulfstream Aerospace

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation February 2, 2017

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded a $983m contract to Boeing Aerospace to provide engineering support services for a number of...

Trump’s ‘Debt Bomb’: Deficit May Grow, Defense Budget May Not

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation January 23, 2017

WASHINGTON: “Trump is going to explode the debt,” GOP pundit Mackenzie Eaglen said. “What you’re going to see is a debt bomb.&...

McCain Calls for Massive Increase in Defense Spending

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation January 19, 2017

—Brian Everstine Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing a massive increase in defense spending to av...

Cost of Air War Against ISIS Climbs to $11 Billion: Pentagon

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB January 19, 2017

The cost of the U.S.-led air war against the Islamic State has climbed to nearly $11 billion since its inception, the latest figures show. By the end ...

Cost of Air War Against ISIS Climbs to $11 Billion: Pentagon

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB January 19, 2017

The cost of the U.S.-led air war against the Islamic State has climbed to nearly $11 billion since its inception, the latest figures show. By the end ...

McCain’s 300 Low-End Fighters A ‘Great Idea:’ CSAF Gen. Goldfein

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation January 18, 2017

WASHINGTON: A key part of Sen. John Mclain’s alternative defense budget proposal is the rapid purchase of 300 “low-cost, light-attack figh...

McCain’s Excellent White Paper: Smaller Carriers, High-Low Weapons Mix, Frigates, Cheap Fighters

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation January 18, 2017

Sen. John McCain issued a provocative and comprehensive alternative budget for the Pentagon on Monday, Restoring American Power: Recommendations for t...

McCain Pitches $430 Billion Boost in 5-Year Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation January 17, 2017

An influential senator on a key defense panel has proposed spending $430 billion more on defense over the next five years. Sen. John McCain, a Republi...

McCain Pitches $430 Billion Boost in 5-Year Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation January 17, 2017

An influential senator on a key defense panel has proposed spending $430 billion more on defense over the next five years. Sen. John McCain, a Republi...

State-owned cyberwarfare training facility planned for Georgia

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in General News, Legislation January 11, 2017

GEORGIA-POLITICS By Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Gov. Nathan Deal will unveil plans Wednesday for a new state-own...

David Perdue’s new committee perches give him more say over defense, financial regs

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation January 5, 2017

Tamar Hallerman, January 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — It may have taken him two years, but Georgia U.S. Sen. David Perdue on Tuesday finally got his campai...

Air Force Opens $16 Billion Trainer Aircraft Competition

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB December 31, 2016

The U.S. Air Force has opened a potentially $16 billion competition to develop a new T-X trainer jet. The service on Friday announced it has begun acc...

Congress, Don’t Wait On Trump To Boost Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 23, 2016

Congress is setting the defense budget on autopilot and high-tailing it out of town, leaving a lot of unfinished business behind. While President Obam...

Did Trump Tweets Just Lower the Cost of Air Force One?

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 22, 2016

Did President-elect Donald Trump’s tweetstorm criticizing the projected costs of the future Air Force One planes just lower the price tag of the...

Did Trump Tweets Just Lower the Cost of Air Force One?

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 21, 2016

Did President-elect Donald Trump’s tweetstorm criticizing the projected costs of the future Air Force One planes just lower the price tag of the...

Average BAH Rate Set to Increase for 2017, BAS Unchanged

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation December 20, 2016

Military.com The Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rate will increase an average of $41 per month nationwide Jan. 1, even as the ...

Trump Blasts Air Force One, F-35 — and Revolving Door

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 16, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump used a speech last night in Pennsylvania to criticize major defense acquisition programs including Boeing Co.’s Air...

Union’s hopes, fears for incoming Trump administration

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation December 9, 2016

By: Aaron Boyd, Federal Times December 8, 2016 (Photo Credit: Staff David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees,...

Deals this week: Raytheon Missile Systems, United Launch Services, Northrop Grumman

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 8, 2016

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has placed an order with Raytheon Missile Systems for Griffin A Block /III missiles.

Defense Lobby’s Answer to Trump? Don’t Tweet Back

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 8, 2016

When President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter this week to attack the projected costs of a new Air Force One — an aircraft still years away ...

In Bashing Air Force One Costs, Trump Seems to Target Defense Spending

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 6, 2016

In bashing plans for a potential $4 billion program to upgrade the Air Force One presidential aircraft, Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Tue...

Navy Shipbuilding, Uniforms Under Scrutiny in Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation December 2, 2016

This story has been updated to note that the $440 million in the NDAA may be spent on one of two ship designs. The final version of next year’s ...

Carter Pleads with Lawmakers to Pass Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 29, 2016

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned Tuesday that more delays by Congress in passing a defense budget would impact the campaign against the Islamic ...

Carter Pleads with Lawmakers to Pass Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 29, 2016

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned Tuesday that more delays by Congress in passing a defense budget would impact the campaign against the Islamic ...

House plans final NDAA action this week.

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation November 29, 2016

House leaders plan to roll out a final fiscal 2017 defense policy bill this week with the aim of taking up the measure on the floor Friday, according ...

Pentagon Stops Buying Helos from Russia for Afghanistan

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 28, 2016

The Pentagon and the White House have relented and stopped doing business that evaded economic sanctions on Russia with the Kremlin-run arms firm supp...

Pentagon Stops Buying Helos from Russia for Afghanistan

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 28, 2016

The Pentagon and the White House have relented and stopped doing business that evaded economic sanctions on Russia with the Kremlin-run arms firm supp...

What Election Will Mean For The Defense Budget

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 7, 2016

No one has done a better job of predicting the final outcomes of deals on the defense budget since sequestration was made law than Mackenzie of the Am...

Lockheed ‘Disappointed’ by Pentagon’s Latest F-35 Contract

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation November 2, 2016

The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Corp. finally came to an agreement for 57 more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters after months of negotiations. In an announ...

Northrop Sees Good Times Ahead for Big Defense Firms

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation October 31, 2016

Northrop Grumman Corp., which won the contract last year to build the new B-21 “Raider” bomber for the Air Force, reported solid sales and...

Deals this week: Valdez, Northrop Grumman, Battelle

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation October 13, 2016

Battelle Memorial Institute and the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center are collaborating on the research and development (R&D) of an ice pr...

Wanted: More Veterans in Congress to Break Gridlock

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation October 13, 2016

A retired two-star general has come up with a new explanation for what’s wrong with Congress — not enough veterans in the House and Senate...

US AFLCMC and Battelle sign CRADA for aircraft anti-icing technology development

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation October 11, 2016

The US Air Force (USAF) Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and Battelle Memorial Institute have reached a cooperative research and development agre...

Georgia lawmakers stressing military funding as another long recess looms

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Legislation September 28, 2016

By Peter Zampa | WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Funding our nation’s military may have to wait until after the election. With just one more week until Cong...

Army’s ‘Multi-Domain Battle:’ Jamming, Hacking & Long Range Missiles

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation September 27, 2016

Days before the biggest defense conference of the year, one of the Army’s top thinkers is unveiling the service’s new push to expand its r...

Carter Describes Security Challenges, Budget Issues at Senate Panel Hearing

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation September 22, 2016

With just eight days remaining before the end of the fiscal year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter implored the Senate Armed Services Committee to pass th...

Air Force Outlook for Modernizing Fleet Likely to Prompt Showdown with Capitol Hill

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB September 21, 2016

The Air Force plans to shrink it fleet by 235 planes over the next five years as it sheds legacy aircraft to make way for the F-35, its fifth-generati...

Air Force Outlook for Modernizing Fleet Likely to Prompt Showdown with Capitol Hill

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB September 21, 2016

The Air Force plans to shrink it fleet by 235 planes over the next five years as it sheds legacy aircraft to make way for the F-35, its fifth-generati...

Air Force Outlook for Modernizing Fleet Likely to Prompt Showdown with Capitol Hill

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB September 21, 2016

The Air Force plans to shrink it fleet by 235 planes over the next five years as it sheds legacy aircraft to make way for the F-35, its fifth-generati...

Deals this week: Boeing, Tronair, Raytheon

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation September 15, 2016

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded a $700m-worth contract to The Boeing Company for the production of Small Diameter Bomb Incre...

MacB wins contract to provide EPASS services for US AFLCMC

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation September 13, 2016

MacAulay-Brown (MacB) has received a task order to support the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Special Operations Forces (SOF)...

Cocaine Bust Highlights Growing Air Force Role in Southern Hemisphere

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation, Robins AFB September 8, 2016

The line of cocaine the Air Force and Joint Interagency Task Force-South seized last month in the Caribbean would stretch “from the Pentagon to ...

Military, political, business leaders discuss military needs, how to deal with Sequestration

Posted By 21st Century Partnership in Latest News, Legislation September 1, 2016

By wrbljoeyripley, WRBL.COM FORT BENNING, Ga. – As warning shots of sequestration ring soundly in the ears of the military amid looming cuts, busi...

MTSI wins engineering support contract for AATC in US

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation August 14, 2016

Modern Technology Solutions (MTSI) has received a modernisation and engineering support contract from the National Guard Bureau (NGB) for the Air Nati...

US Air Force’s A-10 Thunderbolt arrive at Estonia to practise highway landing

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation August 8, 2016

The US Air Force Reserve Command’s eight A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft have landed in Estonia to practise landing.

Deals this week: ViaSat, ECAPS, Seyer Industries

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 28, 2016

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has announced an $88m modification to the Network Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) contracts that were a...

Pentagon Wants Brain-Stimulating Headset to Improve Combat Skills

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 26, 2016

The Pentagon’s new innovation unit will be testing a high-tech headset to see whether it can make special operators even better fighters, Defens...

Marines’ New King Stallion Won’t Have to Borrow Spare Parts

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 13, 2016

FARNBOROUGH, England — Under the hood of the much-anticipated CH-53K King Stallion helicopter is a slew of smart systems that will help maintain...

Air Force Doesn’t Need New Nuclear Cruise Missile, Lawmaker Says

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 7, 2016

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee made his case Wednesday for cutting the new nuclear cruise missile for the Air Force and reinin...

Leaving More Troops in Afghanistan Will Cost Extra $3.5 Billion in 2017: Analyst

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 6, 2016

As my colleague Richard Sisk reported earlier today at Military.com, President Barack Obama has announced plans to keep more U.S. troops in Afghanista...

GE wins $1bn contract to develop three-stream engine for combat aircraft

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation July 4, 2016

GE Aviation has secured a $1bn contract to continue developing the three-stream adaptive cycle engine for the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Cente...

SASC Likely To Agree To HASC’s $18B Plus-Up: Staff Directors

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation June 21, 2016

WASHINGTON: Senate authorizers will probably go along with the House in adding $18 billion to the base defense budget, setting up a veto fight with th...

US Air Force develops new ISR payload adapter for RQ-4 Global Hawk

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation June 20, 2016

The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has developed a new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) payload adapter (IPA) for the B...

MacB and Exeter to provide logistics and system sustainment support for USAF

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation June 9, 2016

MacAulay-Brown (MacB) has partnered with Exeter Government Services to provide logistics and system sustainment support for the US Air Force Life Cycl...

Dems Counterattack On McCain’s $18B For ‘Readiness’

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation June 8, 2016

WASHINGTON: The battle lines were drawn today between Republicans and Democrats over the $18 billion Sen. John McCain wants to add to the defense budg...

Secretary Speaks With Troops at Submarine Base in Connecticut

Posted By 21st Century in Legislation May 24, 2016

Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., where he delivered remarks to troops and took questions relating to caree...

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