The Air Force is mulling a Northrop Grumman proposal to lower the cost of removing sensors from U-2 spy planes and installing them on Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft even though the transfer poses “operational implications.”

The Army will delay its annual tactical wheeled vehicle strategy report to Congress by nearly a year due to uncertainty over how the Defense Department's Strategic Choices and Management Review will impact the future of the ground force.

A new and highly detailed Selected Acquisition Report on the Joint Strike Fighter reveals that F-35 engine cost growth in 2012 is the result of the program office's accidental allocation of some cost to the JSF aircraft program instead of to the F135 engine, the cost of which is calculated separately.

Lawmakers want the defense secretary to provide a report to Congress on whether the Defense Department plans to kill or keep the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

The Defense Department's upcoming "skunk works" pilot project for acquisition management will significantly streamline milestone decisions for participating programs, Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall said today.

The Defense Department estimates the Joint Strike Fighter program's total acquisition cost at $391 billion -- a drop of $4.5 billion from last year's projection, according to a new report.

The Pentagon is asking Congress to shift $617 million in a reprogramming request that ostensibly would fund higher-priority military intelligence needs, but also includes money for efforts like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Ground Based Midcourse Defense programs.

While the Army has repeatedly said it does not want to spend any more money on Abrams tanks, more than 120 members of the House have sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh asking that the service pump additional funding into upgrading the tanks for the National Guard, but not in fiscal year 2014.

The Navy's newest unmanned aircraft platform, the MQ-4C Triton, completed its first flight today at Palmdale, CA, which marks the start of testing that will validate the system for future fleet operations, according to the service.

House legislators want the Air Force to continue flying a squadron of high-altitude unmanned aircraft two years beyond the date the service expects to stop using what it considers a cost-heavy program.

U.S. military forces running drug interdiction missions in Central and South America are gradually losing their ability to disrupt illicit trafficking, with sequestration, shifting priorities and other budgetary constraints taking aim at the resources needed for the mission, according to a senior military official.

The Pentagon plans to sign a new deal with India to develop and test algorithms to autonomously control swarms of small, unmanned aerial vehicles, the Defense Department's director for international cooperation, Keith Webster, told Congress in a recent letter.

The Navy has established a new $11.4 billion cost cap for the second Ford-class aircraft carrier, a 79-percent increase above the $8.1 billion statutory ceiling set in fiscal year 2007 -- a hike the service says is largely attributable to economic inflation.

A House subcommittee is trying to prevent the Air Force from canceling or modifying its C-130 Avionics Modernization Program in fiscal year 2014, despite a push by the service to minimize the expense of overhauling the cockpit of the cargo aircraft.

A House subcommittee is recommending raising the cost cap on the Navy's Ford-class aircraft carrier by $1.2 billion, pushing the total cost of the project to $12.9 billion, according to a draft of the subcommittee's fiscal year 2014 defense authorization mark released today.

Almost a week after the Defense Department renewed a satellite-services lease with a Chinese company, House legislators are proposing a policy that would prevent the Pentagon from purchasing satellite services from foreign entities with certain business or ownership connections to the governments of China, North Korea or any country deemed a state sponsor of terrorism.

The Obama administration is moving to end an epic legal battle between the Justice Department and two major defense contractors, seeking congressional authorization to allow the Navy to receive "in-kind" payments in lieu of cash from Boeing and General Dynamics to settle a $1.3 billion dispute over the 1991 termination of the A-12 aircraft program.

The Pentagon is seeking $6.4 billion in additional weapons procurement spending in fiscal year 2014 as part of a $79.4 billion overseas contingency operations spending request the Obama administration sent to lawmakers on Friday.

A Wideband Global Satellite Communications launch scheduled for this week has been delayed by one day due to an engine anomaly involving a Delta IV rocket booster.

As Congress mulls a multiyear contract for the C-130J aircraft, Lockheed Martin is making its case to lawmakers for the savings associated with that procurement approach in comparison to annual contracts for the aircraft.