The U.S. Air Force intends that its Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) effort begun this year build upon the experience of the F-35 JSE under the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. F-35 JSE testing is part of the fighter’s initial operational test and ...

A Navy official this week called the next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine, SSN(X), an apex predator that will combine the best capability and technologies from three earlier designs. “We are looking at the ultimate apex predator for the maritime domain. It is going to be faster, carry ...

While the U.S. Air Force wants to mothball its oldest Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130s and move to a fleet of 255 Hercules airlifters from 300, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act advises a provision that would prohibit the ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is directing Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command, to lead an effort to develop guidance on the tenets of responsible behavior in space, including not generating long-lived debris, maintaining safe trajectories and separation from other space ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) restores funding for a second Navy destroyer and calls for adding an additional F-35 above the budget request.  SASC approved its NDAA markup during a closed session on Wednesday by a ...

The Navy awarded VTG a contract worth $9 million to install and integrate the Navy’s new dazzling directed energy laser on five more Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The company said the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC-PHD) selected it to install the AN/SEQ-4 Optical ...