DOD Has “Risk-Averse Culture”

Retired Brig. Gen. Scott Bethel blasted the Department of Defense bureaucracy Tuesday and singled out the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for being “not very tolerant of risk or mistakes.” Innovative ideas and programs are strangled, he...

Boeing Plants Defense Flag in Virginia

Boeing is moving the headquarters of its Defense, Space, and Security unit from St. Louis, Mo., to Arlington, Va., starting in January, a company spokesman confirmed, but the move will only affect about 50 people, and not all at once....

Lockheed Regularly Flying Its T-X Entrant

Lockheed Martin’s entrant for the T-X program has been flying regularly around its new facility in South Carolina as the company tries to press the T-50A as a reliable aircraft for future Air Force training. The newest of the two...

Boeing Delivers Updated AWACS to NATO

Boeing on Tuesday delivered the first upgraded E-3A AWACS to NATO, equipped with cockpit upgrades. The Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management upgrade includes a digital flight deck and avionics upgrades needed to comply with current and future air traffic control...

Correction

An entry in the Dec. 9 Daily Report erroneously stated who called for an investigation into a coalition airstrike on ISIS fighters in a hospital in Mosul, Iraq. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve,...