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Pentagon Fronts Bomb Buys For Allies Fighting ISIS
A special budget account is being used to boost weapons production ahead of allies' formal orders.
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Where Are All the Startups?
Pentagon leaders regularly tout Silicon Valley innovation, but entrepreneurs seem largely absent from the largest defense industry events.
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U.S. Air Force Preps a Controversial No-Bid Purchase of Spy Planes
Lawmakers balk at replacing aging EC-130Hs with smaller Gulfstream G550s without open competition.
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US Air Force Grounds F-35s It Just Declared Ready for War
Crumbling avionics lines are the latest setback for the jet, which had been riding a wave of progress.
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Boeing Needed International Help to Build New Training Jet
A decade of layoffs forced the US giant to seek engineering and manufacturing talent from partner Saab.
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Disjointed: Pentagon Isn’t Coordinating Efforts to Fix Readiness
Each service has its own plan, except for the Marines, who don’t really have a plan, says the GAO.
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China to Expand Military Reach with a Fleet of the World’s Largest Planes
Ukraine’s Antonov has entered a pact with a Chinese firm to restart production of the An-225.
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What to expect when Congress returns; American fighter jets, made in India?; Textron to stop making cluster bombs.
Welcome to the dogs-days-of-summer-and-seersucker edition of the Global Business Brief.
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Air Force, Pentagon Have More Work to Do Before Ditching the A-10, Watchdog Says
Losing the aircraft would also mean a loss of U.S. combat search-and-rescue capabilities, the Government Accountability Office said in a newly declassified report.
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Priorities for a (Clinton) White House; The A-10’s forgotten mission; Why picking a training jet is so hard; and more.
Here's your who-called-August-slow? edition. Tell your friends.
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Pentagon: We’re Closer Than Ever to Lasers That Can Stop Iranian, North Korean Missiles
With global demand for missile defense surging, US officials are fine-tuning cheaper, more powerful laser weapons.
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US-Made Patriot Missiles Shoot Down Houthi Rockets
A top U.S. admiral revealed the new detail about Saudi Arabia, already criticized for how they’re using their arsenal of Western-supplied arms against Yemen.
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A new kind of export deal; ‘Never do that again’; The future of IED clearance; and more...
Welcome to the future of the defense industry, where alliance members team up to buy U.S. bomb-guidance kits in bulk.
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