The fight is definitely on at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle. Here, the first corps of pilots to be trained on Lockheed Ma...
OTTAWA - Opposition parties say the Harper government should exclude the F-35 from its search for replacements for Canada's CF-18 jets after a new Pen...
On Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Black Friday, it was announced that 14,000 jobs would vanish. The most sophisticated aircraft in the world, the Avro Arrow, would be dismantled and the pride of an entire country was slain along with it. I believe Canada has what it takes to produce another Avro Arrow.
In a dogfight of defence contractors, the hunter can quickly become the hunted. It's happening now to the F-35. The world's largest defen...
Flights of all F-35 fighter planes were suspended Friday by the Pentagon after a routine check exposed a crack on a turbine blade of an aircraft. ...
"We will not be constrained by the Statement of Requirements," says the Minister announcing the (re)start of an Options Analysis. No kidding. There...
OTTAWA -- The navy's long-delayed, much-studied joint support ship program is expected to come under the political microscope within weeks in what is ...
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper, we hardly know you.Almost seven years after Harper led his Conservatives to office and ended more than a decade of uninterrup...
If a producer was to consider making a feature film about the F-35 procurement process she or he might, given the events over the past few years either go with one of two genres: Max Senate and the Keystone cops, or Federico Fellini for something a bit more surreal. Somewhere between those two extremes lies, I would think, the reality of the storyline.
OTTAWA - The NDP accused the Conservatives of using a House of Commons committee to whitewash the auditor general's scathing indictment of the governm...
OTTAWA - The government is looking for an independent firm to review how the program to buy new stealth fighters was handled.Public Works has issued a...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is making a trip to New York this week, but it isn't to attend a United Nations meeting to which Canada was extended an invitation. The Prime Minister will instead be in the glitzy hotel, where he is due to receive an award from the little-known Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith partnership of corporate and religious leaders. Between the successive fossil awards for environmental savagery and the unfortunate de-funding of reproductive health in foreign aid, the Harper government continues to slide Canada's international influence down to the gutter.
A contract to review the costs of Canada's fighter jet replacement program has been awarded to the audit firm KPMG, the federal government said Friday...
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have accepted the auditor general's scathing criticism of the troubled F-35 program, but newly released doc...
In announcing Lt.-Gen. Tom Lawson as the government's pick to head the Canadian Forces, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said the promotion comes at "an ...
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The oft-maligned F-35 has passed an important development milestone by dropping its first test bomb.The practice run happened Wedne...
The Lockheed-Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas, where Canada’s F-35 jets are being manufactured, is gigantic. You need a motorized cart to get ar...
OTTAWA - The Harper government is redrafting its extensive, multi-billion shopping list of equipment for the Canadian military in an exercise many obs...
There are some who say the F-35 is all about capability, and giving the air force the plan it needs to bomb the crap out of China or Russia. There is something to be said for that argument, but now is not the time to make it because with roughly four million of the estimated 10 million lines of software which power this jet have yet to be written. How do we know this toy will work as advertised?
OTTAWA - The Harper government called in the RCMP to investigate a politically embarrassing story involving the decision to sole-source the purchase o...
OTTAWA - The auditor general is blasting critics of his report on the Harper government's stealth fighter program.Michael Ferguson made a repeat appea...
Auditor General Michael Ferguson responded directly to officials from the Defence Department today, disputing their contention that they ...
Stephen Harper has a new fan in The Dictator's Admiral General Aladeen. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, jokingly portraying Admiral General Aladeen of...
The government not only misled Canadians regarding the costs of the F-35 but the procurement process was "manipulated" to achieve the gov...
OTTAWA - Industry Canada is dampening expectations of how much the aerospace industry could reap from the troubled F-35 program, chopping more than US...
