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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…
March 7, 2025
How U.S. Defense Spending Is Changing Under DOGE Reforms
U.S. defense spending is undergoing a major transformation under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Launched in early 2025, DOGE…
April 3, 2025
Trump Prompts European Calls for a Homegrown Nuclear Umbrella
PARIS—Two weeks after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron descended 20 stories beneath Paris to send a…
March 31, 2025
Shipyards, military clinics exempted from Pentagon hiring freeze
Defense Department leaders announced shipyards, depots and medical treatment facilities will be exempted from a department-wide hiring freeze because of…
March 27, 2025
Republicans offer defense spending tips after punting on a budget
The Republican leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees have sent the Pentagon detailed plans for how they think…
March 25, 2025
Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47
The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited contract for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance future fighter jet, known as…
March 20, 2025
How Europe’s Military Stacks Up Against Russia Without U.S. Support
Last month roughly 10,000 NATO troops carried out drills just miles from Ukraine’s border to test a new quick-reaction force…