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National Defense September 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Pressures Seen as Biggest Risk to Long Range Bomber Program The Air Force is setting out to do something it hasn't done in more than two decades: acquire a heavy bomber. To do so, the service will have to avoid some of the pitfalls of the past, and keep funding flowing to the program despite budget pressures, analysts said. |
National Defense September 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Boeing Pushing to Keep F/A-18 in Production Boeing's F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets have been the dominant fighter jet on aircraft carriers for more than 30 years, but the landscape will change in the next decade as Lockheed Martin's F-35 begins to push out the legacy aircraft. |
National Defense September 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
New Whistleblower Law: What It Means for DoD Contractors Thanks to a new contractor whistleblower protection law, the Inspector General hotline might begin to ring more often in the years ahead, government officials and watchdog groups predict. |
National Defense September 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on stories dealing with procurement of spare parts and fixing the defense acquisition process. |
National Defense September 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Small UAV Demand By U.S. Army Ebbs as Overseas Market Surging The U.S. Army is the biggest buyer of small unmanned systems in the world, but as the United States largely leaves the Middle East, the market will take a nose dive, said Phil Finnegan, director of corporate analysis at The Teal Group |
National Defense September 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Army Seeks Robots That Are Interoperable With Allies From disarming improvised explosive devices to scoping out buildings before troops arrive, unmanned ground vehicles have played an integral role in warfare over the last decade. U.S. forces and NATO allies are now seeking to collaboratively develop UGVs. |
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons |
Prime Contractors Chasing Big Business Retooling Old Fighters For the United States and its allies, the F-16 has proven time and again to be the perfect all-around, multi-mission fighter aircraft, and with ongoing delays in developing a revolutionary new plane, air forces are preparing to keep it flying for decades to come. |
National Defense September 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Fight to Keep A-10 Warthog in Air Force Inventory Reaches End Game The Air Force wants to replace both the A-10 and the F-16 with the new F-35. |
National Defense September 2013 Ryan C. Bradel |
Proposed Bill Seeks to Rein In Fraud, Abuse Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February issued a "discussion draft" of newly proposed legislation entitled the Stop Unworthy Spending Act, or SUSPEND Act, aimed at reforming the federal suspension and debarment system. |
National Defense September 2013 Steff Thomas |
Safe Rocket Fuel Could Have Military Applications NASA is testing a green fuel that could cut mission costs and potentially raise performance by 50 percent, a program official said. |
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