The week that was. The links that were.

Marine Corps leaders point to progress with their short takeoff, vertical landing fighter jet as evidence it can take its place in the fleet exactly as planned, and no longer needs to be on “probation.”

Service officials say that it won’t be long now before the Army decides which Joint Light Tactical Vehicle it’ll begin buying in numbers.

Weapons programs get all the attention, but the Pentagon spends even more on “services,” and top officials want to try to bring that number down, too.

Despite complaints about delays and cost overruns, the Navy brass says it’s locked into its long-term vision for its littoral combat ship program.

The head of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command says strategic-unit airmen must continue their emphasis on ‘discipline and professionalism,’ and remember they’re still relevant today.

The top U.S. trainer of Afghan forces didn’t use ‘psychological warfare’ techniques on visiting VIPs, the Army has concluded.

Navy engineers have put a jet into the air with the same type of catapult now in use aboard today’s carriers, but still have a long way to go before an F-35C actually flies off a ship.

The Pentagon is rethinking its strategy for buying the F-35 in mixed-variant batches. If it builds the jets in larger sets of the same type, that could save money, one official said.

Pentagon officials say if the U.S. defaults on its debt, it won’t be up to them to choose who gets paid first — or not at all — after Treasury stops being able to raise money.

A 16-star panel told the HASC on Tuesday the services are having problems now and they’d only be made worse by big reductions in DoD’s budget.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged to lawmakers that DoD needs to reform its acquisition process.

Australia’s defense minister says the F-35 has almost used up the cost and schedule margins that officials built into the program, and implied it may not order all the jets it once wanted.

The Navy is experimenting with its latest networked suite of intel, communications and sensors, which it hopes will give expeditionary forces the edge along coastlines and inland waterways.

The Pentagon wants to get all its cyber-matters into one convenient place online, but its focus still is exclusively on defense, with nary a peep about its own offensive or snooping capabilities.

A new report finds the antiwar movement has mostly disappeared from the nation’s mainstream newspapers and TV broadcasts. Does that matter?

A forthcoming study details the waste of billions of dollars on wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan — and predicts it’ll continue as the U.S. draws down in both places.