Number of Furlough Days Reduced from 22 to 14

Pentagon

The Pentagon scales back furlough days, even as one of its unions asks it to cancel them all together.

Budget Hawks Call for Pentagon Spending Cuts

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Conservative members want non-defense items stripped from budget.

Defense Cuts Could Cost Navy New Aircraft

F-35C JSF formation

Under sequestration, the Poseidon, Super Hornet and Joint Strike Fighter programs would all lose some new aircraft.

Government Workers Could Face the First Job Cuts

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Sequestration is likely to cost DoD jobs before it impacts contractors, analysts say.

Navy to Seek Growler Replacement Ideas This Summer

A pair of Boeing EA-18G Growlers, XE 573 166857 and XE 571 166855 of the VX-9 "Vampires" bank over the desert.

NAVAIR could release RFPs for the next-generation jammer this summer.

Poseidon Contract Modified

The Navy's first P-8A Poseidon production representative operational test aircraft takes off from Boeing's facility in Seattle, Wash., June 24. It will join three other developmental test aircraft, which are already at NAS Patuxent River. (Photo courtesy of The Boeing Company)

Contract update will support interim flight clearance for P-8As in the special mission configuration.

Tricare records stolen

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The records of 4.9 million beneficiaries were in stolen briefcase.

Ice Age for JSF?

ground test

F-35 production freeze could last four years.

Morning Coffee 8-2-11

debt

Debt deal centers on defense spending.

Morning Coffee 7-20-11

U.S. Navy photo of jet blast deflection testing of the Navy's variant of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Navy encouraged by JSF jet blast tests.