ARLINGTON, Va., March 18 (UPI) -- When Boeing executives heard earlier this month they had failed to beat Northrop Grumman in any of the five selection criteria for the U.S. Air Force's future aerial-refueling tanker, they were incredulous.

ARLINGTON, Va., March 4 (UPI) -- Last week Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS confounded expectations by beating incumbent Boeing for the contract to build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation aerial refueling tanker.

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Today's Democrats are so opposed to the war in Iraq it's hard to believe the same party presided over most of the big military buildups of the last century.

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- When you consider how much money Americans spend on defense -- about $4 trillion so far in this decade alone -- it's amazing what a poor job we do of maintaining our military arsenal.

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- With several of the big networking initiatives begun during Donald Rumsfeld's tenure as defense secretary beginning to implode, many observers are curious why the U.S. Army remains so committed to its Future Combat Systems program.

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- It is getting harder to find qualified people who are willing to serve in top Pentagon jobs.

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Sometime in February, the Pentagon's Defense Acquisition Board will meet to ratify a plan for what looks likely to be the biggest purchase of wide-body aircraft in the world during the early decades of the present century.

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The National Reconnaissance Office, the organization that manages America's spy satellites, is a relic: It hasn't managed to grow its intelligence collection and processing capabilities, leading some policymakers to conclude that major reform is needed.

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- When Operation Desert Storm ended with a crushing defeat of Iraqi forces in early 1991, many pundits opined that U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush was assured of re-election. Military success had made the president so popular that it was hard to see what could derail his re-election bid. But Bush's popularity declined rapidly after Desert Storm, and in 1992 he lost the White House to Bill Clinton in an election that had little to do with national security.