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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a personal pitch for Brazil to pick Boeing when it decides on a contract for fighter jets worth at least $4 billion.

Speaking in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, Panetta said that the purchase of the F/A-18 Boeing-made Super Hornet fighters would give Brazil access to new technology sharing and would “transform” the relationship between Brazil’s defense and aerospace industries and U.S. companies.

Defense lawmakers in the House have agreed to invest millions of dollars in the Iron Dome anti-missile weapon for Israel, as long as the United States can acquire the development rights to the weapon system.

While Canada is technically still a key member of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) international consortium, it won't be buying any new jets anytime soon.

A government watchdog says a shipping company that received $1B in contracts may have violated the Iran Sanctions Act.

Despite yet another spike in costs and an international coalition that seems to be fraying at the seams, there is an sense of 'emerging stability' within the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, according to the Pentagon. 

An overzealous campaign by Ottawa to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has put Canada's role on the fighter at risk, putting the United States in danger of losing a key ally in the program. 

The Government Accountability Office set up a sting operation to get companies to sell counterfeit parts to a fake company.

Defense industry giant Lockheed Martin will pay the Pentagon $15.9 million, according to the Justice Department. 

With Pentagon budgets shrinking, many major U.S. defense firms are looking to foreign markets to support their bottom lines.

Now, a special House defense panel is pushing the Pentagon to give smaller defense companies the same opportunity.

Numerous cost and schedule problems on the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) might force a key American ally to bail out of the program. 

Canadian Associate Defense Minister Julian Fantino said Tuesday that government officials could pull the plug on its portion of the multimillion-dollar project. 

"The determinate decision has not yet been made as to whether or not we are going to actually purchase, buy, acquire the F-35," Fantino said, according to the Ottawa Citizen. "We have not yet discounted the possibility of backing out of the program."