Industry

Northrop Grumman to fly new, improved CCA offering next year

The company spent 15 months redesigning and building a robot wingman after losing its initial bid for the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft program.

To rebuild America’s defense industry, unleash private capital

Here are two concrete steps to take: one by Congress and one by the SEC.

Defense One Radio, Ep. 199: Rep. Rob Wittman

The Virginia Republican discusses the Pentagon’s acquisition reforms, the SecDef’s legislative-affairs bottleneck, and his priorities for the upcoming spending bills.

USAF plan to fly C-5, C-17s even longer elicits concern

Service says it needs to hedge against delays to planned Next-Generation Airlift plane.

Counter-drone warfare at scale? Army demo shows it’s getting closer

In just a few days, Project Flytrap stood up a defensive network in northern Germany.

Can partner nations help solve the Navy’s shipbuilding woes?

On a trip through the Pacific, the chief of naval operations sought ways to get more warships faster.

More is needed to turn the Marine Corps' aspirations into reality

If the force is truly to have balanced lethality and battlefield resiliency, it will need more ships, missiles, and money.

Most of the Air Force’s biggest programs will now be overseen by a 4-star under the deputy SecDef

The centralization of the ICBM, B-21, F-47, and Air Force One programs appears at odds with the Pentagon’s professed acquisition approach, one expert said.

The military's acquisition reform push means 85% ready is good enough to start

A panel of industry executives talked about what that might require, and what it might mean.