Defense Infrastructure & Manufacturing

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to break ground on hundreds of new silos for its LGM-35A Sentinel program while pressing toward the next major test event for the B-21 Raider. Senior leaders point to time and cost gains from building fresh

More than 3,200 machinists at Boeing's defense plants in the St. Louis area went on strike just after midnight, early Monday, August 4. The union-IAM District 837-had voted down a new four-year contract the day before.

On July 24, Italy moved forward with a major defense project as L3Harris Technologies and ELT Group signed an agreement to build Europe's first multi-sensor calibration and flight-test center. The signing took place inside a Ministry of Defense hangar in Rome. The

Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford - Michael Williamson, who heads Lockheed Martin International, says that several NATO members not flying the F-35 have come to the company with questions about what it would take to set up repair options for the jet

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set a six-month deadline for reaching a home-grown share of one-half in Ukraine's overall weapons supply. The target, announced on 17 July after parliament approved a reshuffled cabinet, would lift the current forty-percent domestic share to fifty before

A new alliance between Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. (BPMI) and Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics was unveiled on July 15. Announced during a White House technology round-table in Pittsburgh, the arrangement places Gecko's autonomous inspection robots and data-analytics software inside BPMI's nuclear-propulsion supply chain.

Sierra Space has placed its new "Power Station" technology center into full production. The site, located in Broomfield, Colorado, brings automated solar-array manufacturing under one roof. According to industry sources, the company finished factory acceptance tests early yesterday and shifted directly into