Aerospace & Defense

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Latest News in Aerospace & Defense

  • March 17, 2026

    DOD Report Says Delays Leave F-35s Without New Software

    The F-35 fighter jet program continues to face challenges with delivering reliable, fully functional software that can withstand operational testing, leading the military to use aircraft that lack the fully updated software, the Pentagon's top weapons system tester has found.

  • March 17, 2026

    OFAC Fines Broker $1.1M Over Apparent Sanctions Violations

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday announced that Florida brokerage TradeStation Securities Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to settle potential civil liability for violating the regulator's sanctions programs for Iran, Syria and Crimea.

  • March 17, 2026

    Amici Chide Trump Admin For Calling Anthropic A Security Risk

    In separate amicus briefs to the D.C. Circuit, the ACLU, tech industry groups, former government officials and moral theologians variously panned the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security as unjustified, unlawful and counterproductive.

  • March 17, 2026

    Trump Admin Accused Of Retaliation In Colo. Climate Lab Suit

    A nonprofit research consortium of 129 colleges asked a federal judge to stop the Trump administration from breaking up the climate and weather lab it operates in Boulder, Colorado, claiming the administration is acting on retribution alone in its decision.

  • March 17, 2026

    Chancery Tosses Weapons Co. Suit, Says Claims Belong In NC

    A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Tuesday dismissed a weapons analytics company's suit seeking to force one of its founders to litigate a stock valuation dispute in Delaware, ruling that the claims belong in a parallel North Carolina action and stem from a different contract than the company asserted.

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