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Defense News is a worldwide weekly publication that focuses on the politics, business, and technology related to defense. It caters to an audience of high-ranking military officials, government leaders, and industry executives from around the globe. This publication is produced by the Defense News Media Group, which is a division of Sightline Media Group. Sightline Media Group was formerly part of Gannett Company and was sold in 2016 to Regent Companies, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles.

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Boeing looks to existing production lines for Golden Dome pitch

3 days ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

The head of Boeing’s space mission systems business envisions at least two of the company’s product lines as a clear fit for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome homeland missile defense capability — the X-37B spaceplane and a fleet of missile-tracking satellites the firm is developing for the Space Development Agency’s “Foo Fighter” program.
Behind Italy’s defense-spending hike, pushback at home

6 days ago | defensenews.com | Tom Kington

ROME — With a few hours to spare before Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tackled the thorny issue of defense spending with President Trump, her finance minister announced Italy would hit 2% of GDP this year.
Space Force gets head start on Trump’s commercial buying push

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

A sweeping Space Force acquisition review geared toward finding avenues for more commercial integration appears to have given the service a head start in aligning with several Trump administration directives aimed at reforming defense acquisition and pulling more private sector capabilities into the federal government. Late last year, former space acquisition executive Frank Calvelli and Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen.
New Space Force ‘warfighting framework’ sharpens weaponization plans

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

The Space Force has been upping its rhetoric around the need for weapons in space — and on Thursday it issued a framework meant to provide a “warfighting” lens for planners, operators and weapons buyers on how the service views the use of military power in a domain long viewed as benign.
Aerojet’s president talks new approach to making rocket motors

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Jen Judson

Aerojet Rocketdyne supplies one of the most critical parts of a munition — solid rocket motors — and since L3Harris acquired the company roughly two years ago its goal has been to ramp up production to meet the skyrocketing demand for tactical and strategic missiles. As part of that quest, Aerojet broke ground earlier this year to build four new solid rocket motor production facilities at its campus in Camden, Arkansas.
Pentagon inspector general report rehashes Space Command HQ debate

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

A new report from the Pentagon’s inspector general highlights fundamental disagreements between the Air Force and U.S. Space Command about the risks associated with permanently basing the command’s headquarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The report, dated April 11, comes amid continued tension between congressional delegations in Alabama and Colorado — where Space Command is temporarily headquartered — over where the organization should be based long term.
Space Force ‘Meadowlands’ jammer ready for formal testing

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

The Space Force is ready to start government testing of a ground-based satellite jammer upgrade that it hopes will make the system more mobile, user friendly and effective as an electronic warfare platform. L3Harris, which built the baseline Counter Communications System, or CCS, announced April 8 that the upgraded capability passed a recent verification review, which means it is ready to transition to the Space Force for developmental and operational testing.
F-35 nations prize spare parts, as US dismisses kill-switch angst

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo

MILAN — Norway became the first F-35 partner nation to fulfill its program of record with the delivery of the last two F-35A airframes this month, marking the completion of the Scandinavian country’s order of 52 aircraft, manufacturer Lockheed Martin said. The announcement followed the establishment last month of a new F-35 maintenance centre in Rygge, Norway.
Space Development Agency director reinstated after three-month review

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Courtney Albon

The Space Force will reinstate Space Development Agency Derek Tournear this week after an investigation into past contracting practices involving the agency’s proliferated satellite constellation, officials said. Tournear, who has been on administrative leave since mid-January, will resume his duties as SDA director April 17, according to an Air Force spokesperson. William Blauser, deputy director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, had been serving as the agency’s acting director.
US Army plans to dramatically accelerate Abrams tank modernization

1 week ago | defensenews.com | Jen Judson

Instead of traipsing blindly through the byzantine labyrinth that is the regular defense acquisition process to modernize its nearly 40-year-old M1 Abrams tank, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George has ordered the service and its industry partners to move much more quickly to get something better, his chief technology officer, Dr. Alex Miller, told Defense News.