President Obama signs the Fiscal 2012 defense authorization act into law and with it provides a permanent seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
