Ideas
Ending Production of This Warship Is a Mistake
The Navy’s new shipbuilding plan would replace all but three more LPD-17s with a vague plan to get started on a replacement class.
Business
Raytheon Technologies Invests in Hypersonic Aircraft Startup Hermeus
It’s the first investment by the aerospace and defense giant’s new venture arm.
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Business
Lockheed Secretly Worked to Block Airbus’ Influence in Washington—While Teaming on Major Pentagon Bid
Internal email reveals U.S. company’s pressure to deny Europeans’ application to powerful trade group.
Ideas
Four Lessons that Should Upend the Pentagon’s Five-Year Strategy
From the quick consumption of weapons in Ukraine to rising inflation, the current resourcing plan is untenable.
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We Need More Amphibs, and We Need to Buy Them Smarter
Buying amphibious warships one at a time has left us with too few, and little prospect of closing the gap.
Business
Navy, Microsoft Team Up for R&D—and the Rights to Sell What Emerges
The Seattle-based tech giant will get access to Naval Postgraduate School facilities and the chance to negotiate exclusive rights for technology it helps develop there.
Business
Boeing’s Low-Ball Defense Bidding Has Come Back to Bite Them
The company has lost billions of dollars and the pandemic is making things worse.
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CEO: Boeing Should Have Rejected Trump’s Air Force One Deal
The company revealed that it has lost $660 million outfitting the next presidential jets—so far.
Business
It Will Be Years Before Raytheon Can Build New Stinger Missiles
The U.S. has been sending its Stingers to Ukrainian forces battling Russia.
Business
Lockheed Is Delivering F-35s Late—But the Pentagon Is Also Buying Them Too Quickly, GAO Says
More than one-quarter of recent jets are arriving behind schedule, but ahead of planned components that will require costly retrofits, the watchdog says.
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Defense One Radio, Ep. 98: Arming Ukraine and ‘The Return of Conquest?’
Defense One's Marcus Weisgerber discusses the multi-national effort to arm Ukraine, and Tanisha Fazal shares her concerns about international norms, Putin's legacy, and a possible return to an age of conquest.
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Policy
Pentagon Reorganizes Industrial Policy Office to Shore Up Defense Firms, Supply Chain
The restructure gives two new deputies to the assistant secretary for industrial policy—and "dissolves" another.
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Policy
Biden’s No. 2 Defense Industry Policy Official Leaves Post
It’s unclear why Jesse Salazar has left, the latest in a string of recent Pentagon departures.
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Soldiers Will Have to Wait Until Next Year for New Rifle, Ammo
Sig Sauer’s decade-long contract to make the weapons leads off with a tiny order for quality testing.
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