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May 19, 2025
Hegseth champions special operations as the force for today’s threats
TAMPA, Fla. – The secretary of defense championed special operations forces as a key leader in the Pentagon’s priorities of maintaining high standards and meeting threats with asymmetric tools. “Special Operations have never been more important in our country,” Defense…
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May 16, 2025
Space Force weighs options for boosting launch resiliency, capacity
The Space Force is eyeing options to increase its launch capacity and resiliency as demand for U.S. national security and…
May 13, 2025
The World’s Top Jet Fighter Is About to Get More Expensive
The F-35 is a symbol of U.S. military and technological might. It is also reliant for more than 80 parts…
May 8, 2025
Amazon’s Project Kuiper partners with L3Harris to develop military communication solutions
WASHINGTON — Amazon’s satellite internet company, Project Kuiper, is forging ties with the defense sector, signaling a strategic push beyond…
May 6, 2025
Space Force embraces commercial tech in major overhaul of surveillance satellite program
WASHINGTON — In a significant departure from traditional defense procurement practices, the U.S. Space Force is moving to replace its…
May 1, 2025
The long, slow death of defense primes. Or is it?
For several years, the market, commentators, and the public have debated the slow decline of major defense primes. These companies…
April 28, 2025
Lockheed wants to turn F-35 into a ‘Ferrari’ with sixth-gen tech
Lockheed Martin plans to fold technologies it developed in its unsuccessful bid for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance…
April 23, 2025
Space Force gets head start on Trump’s commercial buying push
A sweeping Space Force acquisition review geared toward finding avenues for more commercial integration appears to have given the service…
April 21, 2025
Trump signs shipbuilding order as Navy leaders call for 381-ship fleet
President Donald Trump on April 9 signed an executive order aimed at revitalizing an American shipbuilding industry that has fallen…
April 17, 2025
New Executive Orders Seek to Improve Acquisition in the Defense Industrial Base
President Donald Trump on April 9, 2025, signed three executive orders (EOs) focused on accelerating defense procurement, improving foreign defense…
April 15, 2025
New Defense Department experimentation series targets data integration
The Pentagon’s Chief Data and AI Office has launched a new series of experiments focused on improving data integration to…
April 10, 2025
US Army punches the gas on Next-Gen Command-and-Control
Coming out of an entire career in the operational Army, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis, now the director of the Army’s…
March 8, 2025
Trump pitches $1 trillion defense budget
President Donald Trump said his administration is preparing to approve a defense budget “in the vicinity” of $1 trillion, calling…