Dated defense reporting: contract awards, deliveries, test events, hearings and program decisions.
HII christened the future USS George M. Neal (DDG 131), the fourth Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Saturday, July 11, 2026. The ship honors a Korean War aviation machinist's mate third class who received the Navy…
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland heard testimony on Army force modernization on June 16, 2026, in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2027. Witnesses were Jesse D. Tolleson, Jr., principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, and…
Only about one in four US F-35s was fully mission capable in fiscal year 2025, per the Government Accountability Office's June 11, 2026 review: the fleet's mission capable rate fell from 67 percent in FY2021 to 44 percent in FY2025, and the full mission capable rate from 38 percent to 25…
The House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year 2027 defense appropriations bill on June 10, 2026, providing a total discretionary allocation of $1.072 trillion, with a closed subcommittee markup set for June 11, per the committee's release. The topline tracks an administration…
Lockheed Martin collected more than $1 billion in defense contracts in late May 2026, headlined by an $879 million F-35 armaments order issued May 18 by Naval Air Systems Command, per the Fort Worth Report. A separate $8-to-$9 billion production investment broke ground in Alabama the same month.