Defense
Despite administration warnings that notices related to sequestration were unnecessary, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are continuing their preparations. – DEFCON Hill
The embattled F-35 fighter program, amid a myriad technical problems, quietly keeps racking up wins as Pentagon officials try to protect America’s lone active tactical jet program from big cuts. – DOTMIL
As US defense spending ramps down, both the military and the aerospace industry want to sell more drones to friends and allies overseas. Right now, however, export controls and arms control treaties make that awfully hard. – AOL Defense
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday he is committed to keeping open a western New York air base targeted in the past for closure and cuts open and finding new work for it. – Associated Press
Initially snubbed as second-class pilot-wannabes, the airmen who remotely control America’s arsenal of lethal drones are gaining stature and securing a permanent place in the Air Force. – Associated Press
Nuclear Weapons
In the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, (NNSA), officials of nuclear weapons programs try to keep them out of the limelight. But extending the life of the B61 is attracting all kinds of unwanted attention. – Aviation Week
The outlines of a revamped strategy for supplying the nation’s military with plutonium cores for nuclear warheads are taking shape, according to the top officer at U.S. Strategic Command – Global Security Newswire
