Textron Aviation is extending furloughs for most employees in response to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company said April 9.

France is returning its aircraft carrier to port two weeks earlier than planned after 40 sailors on board were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.

The European Commission is calling for defense proposals for research and development grants worth up to €160 million ($174 million).

The head of the House Armed Services Committee is crafting language that would help the defense industrial base in the next COVID-19 stimulus bill.

A group of Democratic lawmakers protested April 7 against the Trump administration’s “sustained push” to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies and defund the OC-135B replacement program.

Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned April 7 after a recording revealed that Modley called the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s fired captain “naïve or stupid.”

The first aircraft carrier equipped to embark an F-35C, the USS Carl Vinson, completed its 14-month maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (IMF) in Washington state, a hot spot for the novel coronavirus.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has joined a chorus of Democrats calling for the removal of Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly over remarks to sailors on the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt that referred to the fired captain of that aircraft carrier as “naive or stupid.”