Colton Jones

Colton Jones serves as Deputy Editor of Defence Blog, with a specialization in the U.S. defense industrial base. A former member of the United States Air Force, Colton brings firsthand military experience to his analysis of procurement, defense manufacturing, and Pentagon policy. He is one of the blog’s lead writers and most respected defense experts.
Maritime Security

Two U.S. destroyers get new electronic warfare suites

Two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers have completed a comprehensive mid-life modernization that gives them the most advanced shipborne electronic warfare capability the Navy has ever fielded, making them significantly harder to kill with anti-ship missiles and dramatically...
Aviation

U.S. Air Force wants a new infrared sensor for its F-15 jets

The U.S. Air Force is looking for industry solutions to upgrade one of the most tactically valuable but persistently underdeveloped sensors on its F-15 fleet — a heat-detecting system that can find and track enemy aircraft without...
Army

Pentagon wants to fix how America makes the steel for its weapons

DARPA, the Pentagon's advanced research agency responsible for some of the most consequential technological breakthroughs in American military history, has issued a request for information targeting metals producers, ceramics manufacturers, and composites makers with an unusual proposition:...
Missiles & Bombs

US Air Force prepares to integrate nuclear warhead into new Sentinel ICBM

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to sole-source a contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems to integrate America's nuclear warhead reentry vehicle into the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, a critical step in transferring the country's ground-based...
Missiles & Bombs

Pentagon wants mobile launchers to test missile defense systems

America's missile defense testing program has a logistics problem, and the Pentagon wants industry to solve it: the Missile Defense Agency, the organization responsible for developing and testing America's shield against ballistic missile attack, has issued a...
Aviation

US Air Force spends $95M to learn exactly how lasers destroy targets

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract worth up to $95 million to study how laser weapons affect their targets and how to analyze that data more effectively, accelerating a research effort that sits at the...
Aviation

Raytheon secures $1.1B deal for AIM-9X missile production

Raytheon has secured a $1.1 billion contract modification to produce nearly 2,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, and foreign military customers, cementing the latest production lot of America's premier short-range dogfight...
Aviation

Zone 5 wins $12M to scale up Rusty Dagger missile production

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $12 million contract to Zone 5 Technologies to advance manufacturing technology for the Rusty Dagger program, a fast-moving effort to produce affordable, mass-scale long-range strike missiles that has moved from...
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