Defense Supply Chain Analysis
Oct 28, 2021
F-35 Engine Shortage Easing; Operational test for F-15EX; Rivet Joint’s new life extension; Japan joins flight training school in Italy.
Oct 27, 2021
Forget offshoring or reshoring—the new trend in the U.S. defense is intershoring.
Oct 26, 2021
Ankara is using drone diplomacy to improve its relations in the Middle East as interest grows in its unmanned aircraft systems.
Oct 22, 2021
The consensus from the Aviation Week DefenseChain Conference was that defense primes and suppliers are about to see their world turned on their heads.
Oct 19, 2021
Congressional behavior, midterm elections, new technologies and rising startup companies are likely to drive change in the 2020s.
Feb 03, 2022
Airbus and Kongsberg of Norway have teamed up in a bid to improve the availability of the country’s troubled NH90 fleet.
Feb 01, 2022
U.S. Army Materiel Command is ready to outline its broad plan to modernize the country’s organic industrial base—the system of depots, arsenals and ammunition plants that serve the military—to ensure the manufacturing support is ready for a crisis.
Jan 25, 2022
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing to stop Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales, from taking over rocket and missile propulsion specialist Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Dec 15, 2021
OneWeb has said there are no plans to close its Merritt Island, Florida, factory, even though the company has disclosed its intention to build its next-generation satellites in the UK.
Dec 03, 2021
The Ka-62 variant started flight trials in 2017.
Nov 18, 2021
CPI Aerostructures, a Tier 1 supplier to defense aircraft OEMs and Tier 2 subcontractors, said Nov. 17 it will report $2.5 million more in net losses for 2019-20 after a long-running review of prior financial filings.
Oct 13, 2021
Liberty Hall Capital Partners sold the Vancouver, Washington-based supplier to Arcline Investment Management, the parties announced late Oct. 12.
Sep 30, 2021
The Pentagon is seeking industry’s input on supply chain issues in four key areas ranging from weapons capabilities to manufacturing, as well as the health of the defense industrial base, according to a Federal Register notice.