Boeing looks to Congress to fund fighters after Navy skips orders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co is mounting a last-ditch campaign to convince U.S. lawmakers to buy more fighter jets and stave off a shutdown of a St. Louis production line...
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Exclusive: Pentagon to boost missile defense spending by over $4 billion: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department plans to ask Congress for $4.5 billion in extra missile defense funding over the next five years as part of the fiscal 2015...
Satellites, electronics next in U.S. export control reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is making "great strides" in its drive to reform unwieldy export rules, and expects to unveil proposed changes covering exports of satellites, electronics and...
U.S. should consider re-design of missile defense system: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency should consider redesigning a key part of its ground-based missile defense system after a series of test failures in recent years, the...
U.S. Air Force, Boeing confident tanker program still on schedule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force and Boeing Co officials on Wednesday expressed confidence that a $52 billion air refueling program would deliver its first 18 planes by August 2017...
A-12 settlement won’t extend Boeing’s F/A-18 production line
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A settlement of a dispute over the canceled A-12 aircraft calls for Boeing Co to build three more EA-18G electronic attack planes for the U.S. Navy,...
Pentagon F-35 program says ‘laser-focused’ on software issues
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's F-35 program office on Friday said it was "laser-focused" on finishing development of the software needed for the U.S. Marine Corps to start using its...
Exclusive: Pentagon report faults F-35 on software, reliability
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. Defense Department report warns that ongoing software, maintenance and reliability problems with Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth fighter could delay the Marine Corps' plans...
U.S. outlook too uncertain for M&A rush: Airbus exec
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uncertainty about U.S. budget levels is limiting the prospects for increased merger and acquisition activity in the defense industry, Sean O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the U.S....
McArtor named chairman, CEO of Airbus U.S. unit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Allan McArtor, who heads Airbus U.S. commercial operations, will take over as chairman and chief executive of the overall U.S. unit of the European weapons and planemaker...