Belgium has committed to around €10.2 billion ($11.4 billion) in additional defense spending over the next eight years, with procurements of helicopters and special forces aircraft to follow.

Russia’s buildup of forces near Ukraine, including the deployment of combat aircraft and ballistic missiles, is at a scale not seen since the Cold War, and top U.S. and NATO officials are continuing to press the Kremlin to draw down and trying to make room for diplomacy.

The Pentagon has stood up new efforts to reduce civilian casualties following high-profile incidents across the Middle East in which civilians were killed in U.S. airstrikes, with a new mitigation plan expected within 90 days.

The U.S. Air Force plans to approve the redesign of the KC-46 tanker’s troubled remote vision system without an independent assessment of how ready the technology is and a plan for how it will mature, and a government watchdog is urging the service to slow its approval to avoid becoming financially responsible for more possible problems in the future.

Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems division suffered increased worker absenteeism during the fourth quarter of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to missed sales targets that led to more tepid financial results–and 2022 outlook–than investors expected.

Boeing on Jan. 26 reported another charge of $402 million on the KC-46, bringing the total cost overruns for the tanker to about $5.4 billion, and the way the company announced it highlights an ongoing rift with the U.S. Air Force.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the Lockheed Martin F-35C involved in a “landing mishap” on Jan. 24 fell into the South China Sea and the service is now drawing up plans to salvage the aircraft.

NATO has announced a series of deployments to Eastern Europe that will bulk up its response to Russia’s continued buildup of forces near the Ukrainian border.