The Space Development Agency has appointed Col. Alexander Rasmussen, most recently chief of the Tracking Layer at SDA, as chief capability officer. Rasmussen announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the service’s program engineers are working in coalition with two defense contractors on the Next Generation Air Dominance project at a design-and-development hub at Wright-Patterson Air
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The Pentagon and the defense industry have initiated efforts to increase production of high-end explosives and such initiatives include reestablishing domestic supply chains and refurbishing factories, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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President Joe Biden and the heads of state of Australia, Japan and India met on Saturday in Hiroshima, Japan, for the fifth Quad Leaders’ Summit to discuss key initiatives in infrastructure, critical
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The Department of Defense overestimated the value of missiles, ammunition and other equipment it handed over to Ukraine in support of its defense against Russian invasion by approximately $3 billion, Reuters reported
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The Aerospace Industries Association’s 35 small business members have called on Congress to act on two bills that would restore tax incentives for research and development work. The owners and executives of
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The State Department has released a 10-point plan aimed at retooling its oversight of the foreign military sales process amid escalating strategic competition. The action plan, called “FMS 2023,” issued by the
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Congress could vote on a measure to raise the debt limit as early as next week, the Financial Times reported Thursday. “We’re not there, we haven’t agreed
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The Government Accountability Office identified eight priority open recommendations for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in July 2022 and found that OSTP implemented only one: the adoption of practices that
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Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said a joint autonomy office within the Department of Defense’s chief digital and artificial intelligence office could help DOD facilitate
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Colin Kahl will step down from his role as undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense in mid-July. Lloyd Austin, defense secretary and 2023 Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement
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