Boeing's Fighter Jet Business Is Not Dead Yet, New Defense Boss Says
“We’re investing,” says Ted Colbert, outlining company plans on the eve of Farnborough Air Show.
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“We’re investing,” says Ted Colbert, outlining company plans on the eve of Farnborough Air Show.
The future of Navy and Marine airborne mine countermeasures will be influenced by past programs—and new technological capabilities.
Boeing and Nammo have conducted a series of ground-fire tests of Ramjet 155 Extended Range Artillery in Norway.
The time of the rocket is at an end, the time of the spaceplane is about to begin. At least that is what developers of them are hoping.
As the Army races forward to take flight in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), Breaking Defense contributor and acquisition expert Bill Greenwalt sees too many troubling parallels with the Air Force’s infamous production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. With taxpayer dollars and Army tactical capabilities in the balance, he argues in the op-ed below that Congress should act to prevent a costly repeat of history. Almost a decade ago, Frank Kendall, the acquisitions official who is now Air Force Secretary, observed that the Air Force had committed “acquisition malpractic...