Report to Congress on MQ-25 Stingray Unmanned Aircraft
The following is the April 17, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, MQ-25 Stingray: Background and Issues for Congress.…
Navy and Marines Tell Congress They Need More Funds for Reset and Maintenance
The Navy will likely need five more years of funding above its base budget to send ships through dry dock…
Navy Wants More Growlers to Fight a Deadlier High End Air War
The Navy’s director of air warfare told Congress Wednesday the service might want more electronic attack aircraft to effectively fight…
F-35 Program Office Confident Marine Joint Strike Fighter Will Be Ready by 2015
The F-35 program office is confident that the aircraft’s Block 2B software will be ready in time for the U.S.…
How Taiwan Would Defend Against a Chinese Attack
On March 6, Taiwan’s Minister of National Defense Yen Ming told the national legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee…
Document: GAO Report on Joint Strike Fighter Software Issues
The following is the March, 24 2014 Government Accountability Office report, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Problems Completing Software Testing May…
Triton Completes First Round of Flight Tests Ahead of Move to East Coast
A combined U.S. Navy and contractor team has completed the initial flight test phase for the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton…
Requirements Debate Continues to Delay UCLASS RFP
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has pushed back the release of the draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the…
Japanese Officials: Unidentified Submarine Near Okinawa
A Japanese military aircraft spotted what is likely a Chinese submarine near the island of Miyakojima, the Japanese Ministry of…
Navy Search Plane Hunting for Debris Along Missing Airliner’s Suspected Flight Path
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane assigned to search for the missing Malaysian Airliner Flight 370 is part of…
DARPA Awards Contracts in Search of a 460 MPH Helicopter
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts to four companies to design a vertical take-off and landing…