“We need that partnership with customers on the DoD side where they’re willing to take a step forward with us in understanding that neither one of us knows the ultimate answer.”

The Predator B’s weapons, avionics and comms suites will all need to be specially configured to meet the needs of India’s military.

Washington finally removes Turkey from the F-35 program, but Pentagon officials decline to say whether there’s a path for it to come back.

Is the European Defence Fund a long-overdue move by US allies to take more responsibility for their own security? Or a bid to exclude US companies from European arms markets?

The deal for hundreds of new F-35s will drive the cost per airplane below $80 million for the first time.

The Pentagon appears to be ready to take further action in the long-running saga over Turkey and the F-35.

USDI Kari Bingen says that DoD’s mission “is hampered when we have to pay in time and money analysts and experts to manually translate data files … to makes systems and data interoperable because of proprietary data standards and formats.”

Europe has bristled at a letter sent to the EU from the Pentagon and State Department, which says proposed EU defense programs are unfair to the US defense industry.

The Pentagon says a new F-35 deal is coming this summer, and promises more costs savings even as the program struggles to get needed spare parts.

Finding capable technologists is the key requirement as DoD upgrades NC3, says Gen. Timothy Ray