Report: Pentagon Plans Cuts to Fighter Jet Program
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The Pentagon is planning sharp cuts in  the Air Force's program for its new F/A-22 fighter jet in a  move budget analysts said was intended to offset mounting U.S.  deficits and the growing costs of the Iraq war, Wednesday's New  York Times reported.
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The head of the aeronautics division of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. will retire next year, the company announced Friday. The division makes fighter jets and other planes for the United States and foreign armies.
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Pentagon report slams military over lax security oversight of the nation's nuclear arsenal
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Documents captured from Iraqi insurgents indicate some of the recent deadly attacks against U.S. helicopters stemmed from a strategic plan to down coalition aircraft, The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.   has received two U.S. Air Force contracts totaling &#36;716 million to continue work on its F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet, designed to be the world's most capable, amid reports the &#36;72 billion program may be scaled back sharply, the company said Friday.
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The United States has threatened to move its jet fighters out of the Korean peninsula unless Seoul offers a new, exclusive firing range for US airmen within a month, reports said.
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The White House has approved a $468.9 billion budget for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2008, a six-percent increase over last year's request, according to a Defense Department document obtained by Reuters.
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The Pentagon not only left new C-17 transport planes out of its budget request this year, it set aside half a billion dollars to halt the planes' production. Officially, the Air Force took the same view, swearing off any more C-17s, which cost $250 million apiece.
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The Pentagon plans to retire one of  the U.S. Navy's 12 aircraft carriers and buy fewer amphibious  landing ships for the Marine Corps as part of $60 billion in  proposed cuts over the next six years, The New York Times  reported on Thursday, citing Congressional and military  officials.
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The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that  would give the U.S. military a more prominent  intelligence-gathering role, including operations targeting  terror groups and those involved in weapons proliferation, The  New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.
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We'll see your $0.5bn, and raise you a laser jumbo Senators are planning to cut budgets for the space interceptor portion of the controversial US missile defence programme, according to reports. However, it appears that a complementary scheme to blast enemy ICBMs shortly after takeoff using a giant laser cannon mounted in a jumbo jet will be fully funded.â¦
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Delta Air Lines will cut up to 7,000 jobs, reduce pay for other workers and close its Dallas hub as part of an effort to slash nearly $3 billion more in annual costs and chart a course toward financial recovery.
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The Pentagon's inspector general   will release a report in the coming days that is expected to   refute claims that an Army intelligence unit had information   that could have thwarted the September 11 attacks, officials   said on Wednesday.
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'Hypersonic tech vehicles' for test in 2009 DARPA*, the wacky Pentagon research bureau where it's always white-coat-and-propellor-hat Friday, has doled out $6m (as part of a $40m "increment" to an earlier "other transaction") to US aerospace colossus Lockheed. The payment is in support of the renewed US military hypersonic-plane programme, variously known as "Falcon" or "Blackswift".â¦
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The US military was investigating Thursday a National Guard F-16 fighter jet that fired 25 rounds through a New Jersey school. The rounds were fired on a nighttime training
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A Democratic lawmaker says he will press on with legislation to permanently bar the Pentagon from selling leftover F-14 jet fighter parts despite the Defense Department's decision to pull them off the market while it considers national security concerns.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq has   drafted a plan that projects steep reductions in the U.S.   military presence there by the end of 2007, The New York Times   reported on Saturday.