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U.S. eyes co-development of anti-tank missile with India

August 24, 2021 at 3:29 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter this week proposed ways to deepen defense ties between the United States and India, including co-development of the next version of...

Affordability is R&D focus for arms industry: executives

August 24, 2021 at 3:22 p.m.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (Reuters) - The single biggest driver for research and development in the U.S. arms industry is not a hot area like unmanned weapons, cyberspace, or surveillance, but...

Northrop sees foreign sales opportunities for Global Hawk

August 24, 2021 at 3:22 p.m.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp on Monday said it expects expanded sales of its high-altitude unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, which passed 100,000 flight hours this month, with...

Pentagon cites progress in fixing Lockheed F-35 business system

August 24, 2021 at 3:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has reduced its withholding of progress payments on Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet program to 2 percent from 5 percent after the company made...

U.S. names possible East Coast missile defense sites, but far from decision

August 24, 2021 at 3:17 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon announced five possible missile defense sites in the eastern United States on Thursday, but said it was far from any decision to proceed with what...

Potential action against Syria reignites U.S. budget concerns

May 23, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military's decision to move an aircraft carrier into the Red Sea to help out with any "contingencies" underscores concerns a strike on Syria could evolve...

Exclusive: USS Nimitz carrier group rerouted for possible help with Syria

August 24, 2021 at 2:53 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike...

Pentagon insists it is open to foreign investment in the U.S.

August 24, 2021 at 2:47 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is taking a harder look at proposed foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies given the increasing financial complexity of such deals, but continues to encourage foreign...

Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’

August 24, 2021 at 2:48 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as...

Pentagon official sees defense M&A slowed by budget impasse

August 24, 2021 at 2:41 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's top manufacturing official expects a spate of merger and acquisition activity - and a doubling of efforts by foreign companies to take over U.S. arms...

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