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Lockheed Martin’s Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson has met incoming U.S. President Donald Trump for a second time and later told reporters that her company is “close to a deal” to bring down the cost of its F-35 program.
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A WC-130H now collecting dust at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base has been offered to Niger under the U.S. Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program.
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Reuters reported that the German government has approved the deployment of eight attack and transport helicopters to Mali as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force there.
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In its annual report, the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) says its assessment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system remain unchanged and has “a limited capability to defend the U.S. Homeland from small numbers of simple intermediate-range or intercontinental ballistic missile threats launched from North Korea or Iran.”
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