DOD removes critical report on missile defense system from Web site
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | fcw.com

The Defense Department has removed from the DOD inspector general's Web site a critical report that states that the network that links radar systems, missile sites and command centers for the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) ground-based defense system has serious flaws in the security technologies, p...

Pentagon rejects call to limit Global Hawk output
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | flightglobal.com

The US Department of Defense has rejected fresh calls by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) for production of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle to be limited to just flight-test articles rather than operational aircraft.

'Pentagon's F-22 Plan Is Not a Recipe for Stability'
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | dc01-cdh-afa03.tranguard.net

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) believes the Pentagon over the past two years has strayed from its long-run effort to introduce stability in major acquisition efforts by laying out procurement plans for USAF's new F-22A stealth fighter that “have been anything but stable.”

JSF stealth won't be reduced
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

Foreign press reports that the Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) sold to Australia will be less stealthy than promised are wrong, prime contractor Lockheed Martin says.

The race to blast tourists into space
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | cnn.com

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- If floating weightless and peering down on a shimmering-blue Earth sounds appealing, you might consider being a space tourist.

Russia hardsells MiGs to IAF
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Recently, the French had to pull their Mirage fighter out of a 126 fighter aircraft deal with India. Shortly thereafter they offered the more modern but expensive Rafale multi-role fighter instead.

Lockheed Completes First Pathfinder Seeker For MDA's Multiple Kill Vehicle System
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | lockheedmartin.com

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 20, 2006 -- Lockheed Martin (NSE: LMT) announced today that it has completed the first kill vehicle pathfinder seeker for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle System.

Northrop to Build Supersonic Flying Wing Prototype
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | defenselink.mil

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Western Region, El Segundo, Calif., was awarded on March 16, 2006, a $3,800,325 increment of a $10,295,593 other transaction for prototypes agreement to develop a conceptual and preliminary design of an experimental aircraft to demonstrate the feasi...

JSF Fracas Risks Bad Blood Between Allies
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | aviationweek.com

Anglo-American feuding over the Joint Strike Fighter threatens to spill over into the wider transatlantic relationship. On the domestic front, there is bad blood between Congress and the Pentagon over the fate of the aircraft's alternative engine.

Australia Embraces Net-Centric Warfighting
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | aviationweek.com

Australia's top planners began with the search for an airborne radar that could pick out very small targets at great distances. But that vision has made a quantum leap into the esoteric world of network-centric warfare with development of the Wedgetail aircraft.

Senate approves move to update B-52 fleet
Posted on: Mon Mar 20th, 2006 | airforcetimes.com

Louisiana lawmakers persuaded the Senate on Thursday to approve a proposal that calls for keeping and upgrading all of the Air Force's B-52 bombers. The proposal runs counter to a Pentagon plan to cut the fleet from 92 to 56 planes.