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Pentagon Hires Booz Allen for $75M to Find Mission for LCS-class

Pentagon Hires Booz Allen for $75M to Find Mission for LCS-class

Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia, is awarded a $74,723,804 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for non-personal professional support services to support the Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants mission to provide a single program executive responsible for acquiring and maintaining th…
Taiwan Approves $8.5Bn Special Budget for Weapons Purchases

Taiwan Approves $8.5Bn Special Budget for Weapons Purchases

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Legislative Yuan has passed a special budget that will provide NT$236.95 billion (US$8.55 billion) in funding over the next five years to buy weapons aimed at improving Taiwan’s defensive capabilities.

The legislation was approved Tuesday morning after all four party caucus…

Chinese J-20 Fighters Train for Night Combat

Chinese J-20 Fighters Train for Night Combat

J-20 stealth fighter jets of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force recently conducted a nocturnal battle exercise against other types of warplanes with experts saying on Sunday that the stealthy J-20 demonstrated its all-time and all-weather combat readiness.

During the recent, und…

CRS Issues New Report on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

CRS Issues New Report on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

The largest procurement program in the Department of Defense (DOD), the F-35 Lightning II is a strike fighter aircraft being procured in different versions for the United States Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. Current DOD plans call for acquiring a total of 2,456 F-35s. Allies are expected to pur…
US Clears $300M Sale of MQ-9 Communications Pods to France

US Clears $300M Sale of MQ-9 Communications Pods to France

WASHINGTON —- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of France of MQ-9 Communications Intelligence Sensor Pod Suites and related equipment for an estimated cost of $88 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the…
Ukraine Beefs Up Stocks of Unguided Aircraft Rockets

Ukraine Beefs Up Stocks of Unguided Aircraft Rockets

As part of the execution of the state defense order, a new contract has been signed between Artem State Joint-Stock Company, which is part of Ukroboronprom, and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for the production of a batch of unguided RS-80 aircraft missiles.

Under the current contract, the nu…

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