Pentagon mulls cutbacks to include F-22 fighter, Navy carrier
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The Navy would retire one of its 12 aircraft carriers and the Air Force would reduce its buy of F-22 stealth fighters under budget proposals being discussed in the Pentagon, officials said Thursday.
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The Defense Department's use of commercial communications satellites has soared with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, the Pentagon is trying to decide whether it can save money by buying service directly from satellite carriers instead of through three Washington area resellers.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday gave  final approval to a $422 billion bill for defense programs that  backs next year's round of military base closings and kills a  proposed $23.5 billion Air Force deal with Boeing Co. .
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WASHINGTON The Pentagon is reopening a controversial 23 (b) billion dollar deal with Boeing to supply refueling tankers to the Air Force.
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Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts.
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The Pentagon will hold a competition to replace its aging fleet of refueling tankers, potentially pitting aerospace giant Boeing Co. against its European rival in a multibillion-dollar military competition.
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An Arizona Democrat will introduce a bill to bar the Pentagon from selling parts for the F-14 fighter jet, which is flown only by Iran, as part of an effort to control military equipment sales. By the Associated Press.
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After decades on the sidelines, U.S. defense contractors are eyeing India's growing military budget and aging arsenal as a multibillion-dollar opportunity that could help offset a projected slowdown in Pentagon weapons spending and extend production lines for such items as the F-16 fighter.
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The U.S. Air Force wants to postpone   until 2009 choosing either Boeing Co. BA.N or a team led by   Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N to win a contract potentially   valued at $20 billion or more to supply air-to-air refueling   tankers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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The U.S. Navy will soon announce whether Lockheed Martin Corp.  or Raytheon Co.  will build a &#36;6.4 billion communications system to beef up satellite services for U.S. troops, the White House and State Department, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The Pentagon&#39;s top weapons buyer Tuesday said he expected officials to decide soon whether to solicit new bids for a multibillion-dollar deal to begin replacing the Air Force&#39;s aging fleet of KC-135 refueling tankers.
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House and Senate conferees agreed  late on Thursday to ban the leasing of aerial refueling  aircraft as part of a final deal on a $422 billion defense  authorization bill, killing a proposed $23.5 billion Air Force  plan to lease and buy 100 Boeing Co. BA.N tankers,  congressional sources said.
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The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy&#39;s 12 aircraft carriers, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army
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Lockheed Martin Corp.  has won a contract modification worth $1 billion to build 23 more F-22 fighter aircraft plus one test aircraft, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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The board of Airbus parent EADS  is expected on Tuesday to decide on a cost-cutting program and assess the impact of the latest delay in its A380 superjumbo plane, which one newspaper report said could now slow 2007 deliveries to just two aircraft.
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Japan plans to postpone buying next-generation fighter aircraft to replace part of its ageing air force fleet because the United States is unwilling to export its state-of-the-art F-22 stealth fighter, a newspaper said on Monday.
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The U.S. military says it will suspend sales of spare parts for the F-14 jet fighter sought by Iran