| Latest Feature Stories F-35 Block 4 Upgrade Slides Two Years As Cost Increases by $1.5 Bn: GAO
PARIS --- The cost of developing the F-35’s Block 4 upgrade has grown by $1.5 billion in the past year, and has now reached $12.1 billion despite Joint Program Office attempts to understate it, the Go... Latest Press Releases Boeing Won No Orders in April, Lost 108 More Orders for 737 MAX
The Boeing Co. recorded zero orders in April for the second time this year, and customers canceled another 108 orders for its grounded 737 MAX plane compounding its worst start to a year since 1962. ... EU Defence Funds At Risk from Coronavirus
BRUSSELS --- European Union plans for a multi-billion euro defence fund have been thrown into doubt by the economic shock of the coronavirus, officials and diplomats say, potentially threatening three... GAO Finds F-35 Block 4 Costs Increase Again As Schedule Slides Two Years
The F-35 program is at risk of missing its test schedule and not meeting manufacturing leading practices. In 2019, the F-35 program conducted much of its planned operational testing but extended the s... Swiss Extend Deadline for Fighter, GBAD Tenders to November
BERN --- Due to the difficult global situation linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, the second series of tenders for the combat aircraft and long-range surface-to-air defense systems is extended to Novemb... China Urges France to Scrap Taiwan Frigate Upgrade
BEIJING --- China called on France on Tuesday to cancel a weapons contract with Taiwan, warning that the deal with the self-ruled island could harm diplomatic relations between Paris and Beijing. T... US Navy Deploys Littoral Combat Ship Near West Capella
SOUTH CHINA SEA --- A U.S. Navy ship conducted presence operations near Panamanian flagged drillship, West Capella, May 12. The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS... China Reveals Large Destroyer's Replenishment Training
The Nanchang, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's first Type 055 large destroyer, recently completed its first known maritime replenishment training, an operation that military experts s... France Releases Reports into Covid-19 Contamination of Carrier Group
PARIS --- On April 7, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, decided to early return from the carrier strike group. Two command investigations and one epidemiological investigation had been ord... Australian Companies Wins Subcontract on Future Submarines
Two Australian companies have signed subcontracts for the design of key subsystems in the [Government’s] Attack-class submarines program. Safran Electronics subcontracted Adelaide-based Acacia Syst... Airbus Wins European Union Satellite Communications Contract
PARIS --- Airbus has won the new satellite communications framework contract for military and civil missions of the European Union and its member states. This four-year framework contract was awarded ... Kongsberg’s MCT-30 Turret Selected for US Marine Corps ACV Program
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS has been selected by BAE Systems, Inc. to design and manufacture the remote Medium Caliber Turret (MCT) for the United States Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle (... China Corruption Probe Targets Former Aircraft Carrier Program Chief
Hu Wenming, former chairman of China's shipbuilding conglomerate and former chief commander of China's aircraft carrier program, is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline an... Where Is Defense Spending Headed After Coronavirus?
As in other sectors of the economy, the coronavirus crisis has spawned uncertainty about the future in defense circles. Military planners, think tank analysts and media pundits are all speculating whe... Royal Air Force Typhoons Carry Out Exercise with US B-1 Bomber
Typhoon fighter aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth have carried out a training sortie with a US B-1B Lancer bomber over the North Sea. The US B-1B Lancer bomber was conducting a long-range nonstop t... US Army Awards $121M Contract for Javelin Anti-Tank Missile
Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin JV, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $121,764,089 modification (P00018) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0076 for the Javelin weapon system. Work will be performed in Tucson,... USS Ford Reaches Another Post-Delivery Milestone
NORFOLK, Va. --- USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) recently progressed toward another major milestone during the ship’s 10th window of opportunity for maintenance (WOO) 10, ensuring mission readiness for it... Embraer Delivers Five Commercial and Nine Bizjets in 1Q20
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil --- Embraer delivered a total of 14 jets in the first quarter of 2020, of which five were commercial aircraft and nine were executive jets (five light and four large). As o... S. Korea Looking into Engine Malfunction in Patrol Boats
An investigation is under way to determine what caused the same engine problem with four of South Korea's recently upgraded high-speed patrol boats deployed to guard the sea border with North Korea an... Raytheon Technologies to Train Afghan Air Force Pilots
ORLANDO, Fla. --- The U.S. Army Contracting Command has selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a business of Raytheon Technologies to train Afghanistan Air Force pilots under a three-year contract va... CPI Aero Joins Industry Team for Next Gen Jammer Low Band
BETHPAGE, N.Y. and BALTIMORE --- Northrop Grumman Corporation has expanded its Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) Capability Block 1 (CB-1) solution team with the addition of proven structure su... NATO Sec-Gen Discusses Pandemic with EU Defence Ministers
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined a video conference of European Union Defence Ministers along with the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacr... Lockheed Marietta Delivers 500th F-35 Center Wing
The Marietta F-35 Team marked a milestone on April 28, as the 500th Center Wing, or CW, was shipped to the F-35 Final Assembly line in Fort Worth, Texas. The Marietta F-35 team delivered its first CW ... Singapore Suspends Exercise Wallaby Due to Pandemic
Inaugurated in 1990, Exercise Wallaby is the Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF) largest overseas exercise and held at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA) in Queensland, Australia. The Ministry of D... Russia’s ARMY-2020 Forum to Include Advanced Information Technologies
The round table "Advanced methods of processing and presenting (visualizing) hydrometeorological and geophysical information" will be held as part of the scientific and business program of the interna... | 
