In an opinion piece on aviationweek.com on August 28, Michael A. Hough, Lt. General, USMC (Retired), weighs in on the critical issue of whether there should be competition for the engine that will ...

As Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1987, John Lehman was certainly never one to shy away from a fight — whether it’s standing up to enemies overseas or battling ...

A question with no answer: Would Boeing’s X-32 have been the better choice for the Joint Strike Fighter program? As the Joint Strike Fighter concept developed over a decade ago, Lockheed and Boeing ...

Boeing didn't lose the Joint Strike Fighter competition, Lockheed Martin won it, the president of Boeing's military aircraft unit said in a news conference Oct. 30. At a Washington, D.C., meeting Oct.

Twenty years ago, there would have been no problem in having competing engines for a US fighter. Competition was king and everyone thought they benefited from the "great fighter engine war" between ...

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s win in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition positions the company to dominate the fighter market beginning in 2008, as the Defense Department begins to replace aging ...

East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney and its old rival, Fairfield-based General Electric, are going head to head in a competition to win a nearly $4 billion jet engine deal in the Middle East. The ...

If The Boeing Co. loses the Joint Striker Fighter competition tomorrow to Lockheed Martin, it will be a bitter blow to the aerospace giant's pride. But Boeing's military and defense business will ...

Mackenzie Eaglen specializes in defense strategy, military readiness and the defense budget. While few expect any tough votes if the Senate's FY 2010 defense appropriations bill arrives on the floor ...