The Missile Defense Agency has postponed an Airborne Laser intercept attempt against a boosting ballistic missile target until Aug. 21 at the earliest "due to a problem with the tracking camera cooling system," according to an agency statement.

Raytheon has delivered 15 rounds of its Excalibur 1B artillery munition to the Army for testing prior to a delayed competitive contract award now anticipated in the coming months, according to company officials.

Lockheed Martin has conducted two government-sponsored guided test vehicles of its Joint-Air-to-Ground Missile system, the second of which failed to hit the target, according to a company official.

The all-quadrant belly-mounted gun system deployed to Afghanistan with the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor has seen limited use in theater due to the sacrifices in space commanders have to make to use them, so the Marines are developing a more integrated system that wouldn't make them choose between the two, officials told Inside the Navy recently.

The Navy is proposing to expand a Georgia bombing range by as much as 51,000 acres to allow Marine Corps aviation units to train using inert precision guided munitions (PGMs). Marine aviation units stationed in South Carolina now have to travel to Arizona or California for this training, according to a Marine Corps spokesman.

The Air Force has selected a Raytheon-built miniature munition capable of striking moving targets for what will become the service's next-generation, low-collateral weapon designed for the irregular warfare fight.

The White House has provided a summary of the written record of the talks between U.S. and Russian officials while they were negotiating the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty earlier this year, according to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The House Appropriations Committee generally follows the practice of not making public the nitty-gritty details of its defense subcommittee mark-ups -- beyond some overall numbers -- until after the full committee has considered and passed the spending bill.

The stage appears to be set for who will compete for the right to continue developing the Pentagon's Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon announcing last week that the two companies had entered into a partnership to compete against a Boeing-Northrop Grumman team for the multibillion-dollar contract.

Raytheon has edged a Boeing-Lockheed Martin team to capture a $451 million contract to develop a next-generation, air-launched surgical strike weapon that can hit moving targets, the Pentagon announced this afternoon.

The Air Force is poised to award the Small Diameter Bomb II contract in the coming weeks following a program review by Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter last week.

The Defense Department is ill-prepared to deal with a future in which enemies are able to threaten U.S. forces with precision-guided weapons, currently a pinnacle of military might unique to the United States, according to the results of a recent war game sponsored by the Pentagon's secretive Office of Net Assessment.

As the Air Force prepares to update its 30-year munition roadmaps, the Air Armament Center has launched an industry outreach program in an attempt to get a better read on the progress of a company's internal weapon development projects that could potentially fill critical focus areas and gaps, according to service officials and contractors.

Air Force officials have re-prioritized hundreds of millions of dollars within the service's internal six-year spending plan to fund high-priority nuclear missions, according to a senior service official.

The Missile Defense Agency has begun the process of developing a successor to the current crop of Aegis interceptors meant for ballistic missile defense, according to a draft request for proposals posted this week on Federal Business Opportunities.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) pressed Navy Undersecretary Robert Work last week to re-examine the possibility of designing a smaller submarine-launched nuclear missile so the service could avoid designing an expensive new sub, jeopardizing future budgets.

A preliminary report by the German ministry of defense has recommended pursuing the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System because it would contribute to an emerging NATO missile defense capability, not because the weapon is needed for the security of Germany alone.

A Raytheon-Boeing team has fired its first Joint-Air-to-Ground Missile government-sponsored guided test vehicle, and plans to fire two more by September, according to company officials.

Army leaders have taken delivery of a program deviation report stating the service's Excalibur artillery munition program has experienced a "critical" Nunn-McCurdy breach following a reduction in procurement that nearly doubled per-unit costs.

The Pentagon's acquisition executive has established a standing advisory panel to regularly assess the vulnerability of U.S. military weapons to attack from an electromagnetic pulse designed to cripple microcircuits and electronic systems.