Yearly Archive: 2020

For centuries, the U.S. military has fought wars on land and sea. For that, America has the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps. Then, in 1909, the U.S. Army bought America’s first military aircraft with a $30,000 contract awarded to the Wright brothers. Less than four decades later, in 1947, the U….

The Royal Australian Navy’s three Hobart Class Destroyers have exercised together for the first time, demonstrating their cooperative capabilities to increase maritime security and stability in our region.

HMA Ships Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney conducted joint tests, trials and exercises off the e…

This report reviews the process and procedures that currently apply to congressional consideration of foreign arms sales proposed by the President. This includes consideration of proposals to sell major defense equipment, defense articles and services, or the retransfer to third-party states of such…

Today, for the first time in history, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine concluded direct foreign economic agreements on military goods. The Minister of Defence of Ukraine Andrii Taran has signed a number of defence contracts with Turkish companies. This event took place during the visit of the Turk…

SPARKS, Nev — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) was selected to integrate the Link 16 line of sight (LOS) tactical datalink upgrade into the Air National Guard (ANG) EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft.

Link 16 integration is a critical component in improving U.S. Air Force and Air Force Special Opera…

PALMDALE, Calif. — Lockheed Martin successfully conducted a flight test mission featuring distributed processing onboard the U-2 Dragon Lady via Kubernetes containerization technology. The demonstration is a critical steppingstone toward creating a DevSecOps environment to enable the delivery of e…