Panel: Pentagon’s Future Vertical Lift Program Should Form Detailed CONOPS Sooner Than F-35 Did
The Future Vertical Lift program officials will need to develop the variants’ concepts of operations early in the process if…
Britain’s Top Admiral: U.S., U.K Planning For ‘Closer and Stronger’ Naval Alliance
LONDON — Five years ago the Royal Navy was reeling from the impact of the British government’s 2010 Strategic Defence…
Navy Air Boss: F-35C Advanced Sensors, Situational Awareness a ‘Game-Changer’
NORTH ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION, Coronado, Calif. – The Navy’s top aviator checked out a simulator for its next-generation fighter…
Document: Air Force Findings from 2014 Eglin F-35A Fire
The following is the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Report into the June 23, 2014 fire on one of the…
Mabus: UCLASS Likely A Bridge to Autonomous Strike Aircraft, F/A-XX ‘Should be Unmanned’
The Navy’s planned carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will help the service in a transition from manned strike aircraft to…
HASC Subcommittee Recommends Additional F-35Bs, F-18s in FY 2016 Defense Bill
The House Armed Services tactical air and land subcommittee supports filling the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ unfunded requirements for additional…
Mabus: F-35 Will Be ‘Last Manned Strike Fighter’ the Navy, Marines ‘Will Ever Buy or Fly’
This post has been updated to include a comment from Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.). NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Secretary of the…
Big Deck Amphib Wasp Completes Combat Systems Qualification, Will Deploy Next Summer After 11 Year Pause
After more than ten years without deploying, the big deck amphibious warship USS Wasp (LHD-1) is ready to ship out…
Think Tank Panel Tells House U.S. Military Faces More Challenges, Suggests Pentagon Spending Reforms
When a quartet of defense budget experts was asked how it would spend the Pentagon’s money now versus last year,…
Nominee Carter Highlights National Security Challenges in Confirmation Hearing
Ashton Carter acknowledged Wednesday that if confirmed as secretary of defense he and the nation “will be confronting some of…