The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made.

Defense ministry press secretary Laurent de Casanove said the contract to purchase U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin's ...

Let’s begin with a backstory: a huge storm ripped through the region in 1982, tearing apart numerous chicken coops and scattering their occupants across the land. It didn’t take long ...