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The Air Force KC-46 Pegasus is a refueling tanker, built on a Boeing 767 frame. This tanker is seen at Paine Field in Everett.

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April 22, 2020 at 4:18 am

Boeing can fix flawed $44 billion tanker, Air Force chief says

The Air Force's top military officer says he's convinced that Boeing finally has a solid plan to fix the flawed refueling system that has bedeviled...

April 15, 2020 at 8:52 am

Pentagon watchdog, in probe limited by White House, clears Microsoft’s $10 billion cloud-computing win over Amazon

The 317-page report by the inspector general also found that giving the contract to a single company — Microsoft — rather than dividing it among...

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February 10, 2020 at 11:04 am

Army’s budget would boost rapid-response for Asia, hypersonics

The Army's proposed $178 billion budget for fiscal 2021 would boost spending to practice rapid deployments in the Pacific, including a 1,000-member force equipped to...

Nation & World

February 10, 2020 at 6:00 am

U.S. Navy’s ship spending plan cut by $4 billion in Trump budget

The U.S. Navy is requesting about $4 billion less for new ships in President Donald Trump's fiscal 2021 budget than it received in the current...

Nation & World

January 6, 2020 at 1:41 pm

US Reaper drone left Soleimani with little chance

WASHINGTON — Even before Iranian General Qassem Soleimani got off a commercial airliner in Baghdad last week, his fate was already sealed. The sequence of...

January 6, 2020 at 12:15 pm

U.S. Reaper Drone Left Soleimani With Little Chance

Even before Iranian General Qassem Soleimani got off a commercial airliner in Baghdad last week, his fate was already sealed. The sequence of events that...

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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Aug. 7, 2019. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

August 9, 2019 at 9:33 am

Pentagon pushes back on ‘misleading’ cloud contract criticism

The Pentagon fought back Friday, defending the cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion that President Donald Trump has questioned and that new...

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FILE – This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

August 1, 2019 at 12:35 pm

Pentagon chief to review cloud contract Trump says favors Amazon

The project, which had been championed by former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, was never supposed to be this controversial. The goal is to bring the...

July 22, 2019 at 11:38 am

Army lets slip that it’s conducting secret operation around D.C.

The Pentagon has revealed a few details about a secret Army mission that has Black Hawk helicopters flying missions over the Washington, D.C., area backed...

Nation & World

April 10, 2019 at 11:34 am

Pentagon clears path for $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing award

The Pentagon said the acquisition process for its JEDI cloud contract valued at as much as $10 billion wasn't tainted by alleged conflicts of interest,...

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