The program office has grounded all the Lightning IIs as it investigates an electrical system failure aboard one of the Air Force models.

Secretary Panetta said that DoD still needs to buy new weapons and equipment going forward, even with all the pressures imposed by the debt ceiling bargain.

Secretary Panetta says a potential $500 billion spending reduction would be “dangerous” and “do real damage to our security, our troops and their families” — so DoD and Congress must work to avoid it.

A study finds that corrosion across the military cost DoD more than $22 billion in just one year. Now the services have to figure out what to do about it.

A group of House lawmakers wants the U.S. to go forward with a long-delayed sale of new F-16s to Taiwan, but its prospects aren’t clear.

Another NATO participant is taking its jets and going home, Americans don’t care anymore, but the war in Libya continues apace.

Amid criticism, the Air Force has halted mandatory religious training for missile officers designed to help them deal with the implications of their jobs.

A counter-narrative is building in Washington that, actually, the Pentagon may not have gotten that bad a deal under the debt ceiling compromise.

The White House tried to make clear on Monday that it considers a potential second set of defense budget cuts to be an alternative to avoid, not a preferred fallback, as Congress seeks more spending reductions.

Chinese officials say they want at least the same number of carriers as will be in service in the navies of India and Japan. And there may be more to it than that.

If America’s two options are to default on its debt or swallow $850 billion in defense spending cuts, it may be time to start thinking about where that would leave U.S. power around the world.

Washington’s proposed debt ceiling compromise could bring as much as $850 billion in cuts for DoD, depending on the breaks. So what happens next?