President Obama’s new review could set Washington on a collision course with unpleasant questions about the future of American power.

Relations between Pakistani intelligence officials and their American counterparts have gotten so bad the Pakistanis are leaking details about American operations to reporters.

Was it “immoral” for the U.S. to back away from the forefront of operations in Libya?

The Pentagon is warning that the president’s proposed cuts will have real consequences, but at very least, officials may be able to choose what they are.

Huntingon Ingalls wants to build a gray-hulled, heavily-armed, Aegis-equipped version of the Coast Guard’s new flagship cutter. Problem is, nobody seems to want to buy it.

Service officials are talking tough about cost, efficiency and schedule. But they may not have many ways to effectively back it all up.

Nobody in Africa wants to host U.S. Africa Command? That’s fine, say U.S. lawmakers, who want to welcome it to their districts.

A top U.S. admiral says China’s carrier is more a metaphor for its growing power than a real threat. How long will Beijing be content with symbolic warships?

After a relative respite, DoD could go back on the budgetary chopping block in President Obama’s speech today.

The Navy hopes to hear back from Bell-Boeing on a proposal for a second multi-year contract for 122 V-22 Ospreys on May 26, such a deal would round out the Air Force and Marine Corps buy of 50 and 360 aircraft, respectively.

Yup, from F-35B deliveries in 2011 to predictions of a 10 year budget crunch, here’s a roundup of some ideas on the future of naval aviation as presented by senior Navy and Marine Corps aviation officials to an audience at the Navy League’s 2011, Sea, Air, Space conference just outside of Washington DC, today.

The Navy has put together a special investigative unit to look into contracting fraud in the wake of indictments being filed against several defense contractors who attempted to bride Navy procurement officials, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said today.

A manufacturing issue, not a design flaw, led to a six-inch crack along a weld seam on the hull of the Littoral Combat Ship, USS Freedom, during heavy weather trials in February, Navy officials said today. “We’re still reviewing the design for weld improvements, as far as the analysis of [what led to the crack] we’ve completed the analysis and are in the process of working through the release of that information,” said Capt. Jeff Riedel, the Navy’s LCS program manager during a briefing at the Navy League’s annual Sea, Air Space conference held just outside of Washington DC.

Here’s a little gem that was tucked in the Pentagon’s contract announcement email last night: The Air Force just gave Boeing a $28 million cost-plus contract modification to deliver eight Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs, “16 separation nuts, eight MOP loading adapters, and an aft closure redesign.”

A senior Air Force space official recently warned of the threat of 4G wireless service interfering with Global Positioning System transmissions.

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley this week shed a tiny bit more light on the whole mystery surrounding the lack of an appearance by the F-22 Raptor in the skies above Libya during Operation Odyssey Dawn, saying the plane would have been used if it was needed.

The cancellation of NASA’s Constellation rocket program last year and the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet has contributed to significant cost spikes for the solid fuel rocket motors the Navy uses on its Trident sea launched ballistic missiles which are the only solid rockets in use today.