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France carried out its first drone strike, killing 33 terrorists in Mali, two days after it announced drone deployment....Read More

BAE Systems’ departure from the surface ship repair business at its Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard will eliminate about 325 jobs, officials said Monday....Read More

Lockheed Martin received a contract valued at $7 billion for sustainment of the F-22 fighter plane of the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department announced....Read More

President Donald Trump signed a $738 billion defense bill into law, establishing the Space Force in a compromise with Democrats to grant federal employees 12 weeks of paid parental leave....Read More

The Air Force Global Strike Command has named the MH-139A helicopter “Grey Wolf,” an AFGSC strike commander announced....Read More

Boeing received a $1.5 billion contract to provide support services for Apache helicopters through the Foreign Military Sales program, according to the Pentagon....Read More

The U.S. Air Force said Thursday that the KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker has finished its first flight around the world....Read More

Hill Air Force Base in Utah this week received the last of the 78 F-35As assigned to three squadrons at the base, the Pentagon announced. Hill received its first F-35As in 2015....Read More

Sikorsky Aircraft received a $556.1 million deal to produce and support Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army, according to the Pentagon....Read More

Boeing Aerospace Operations has been awarded a contract to provide technical services in support of several aircraft programs for the U.S. Navy and the government of Kuwait, the Department of Defense has announced....Read More