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An experimental operations unit to test and evaluate the first and future increments of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has officially been stood up at Nellis Air Force Base, NV, according to a service ...

Rather than asking for an increase in the topline of the annual budget, the Army will likely need to accomplish its ambitious transformation initiative within a budget that looks similar to this ...

With China outpacing the United States in industrial capacity, the Pentagon must take a broader approach to building the defense production base needed to counter Beijing, according to a new report ...

The Pentagon has quietly canceled a long-anticipated industry engagement on space-based missile interceptors, dealing another setback to the Trump administration's push to rapidly launch the most ...

The Defense Department abruptly canceled -- again -- a high-profile industry summit for the Golden Dome for America missile defense initiative, marking a sputtering start for the Trump ...

Though technology and artificial intelligence adoption can be particularly difficult for the Navy -- due to ships being away at sea, difficulty obtaining data rights and a lack of connection between ...

The February 2024 Defense Science Board report -- released April 11, 2025 -- "examines the current defense industrial base (DIB), considering current economic and security pressures, as well as events ...

Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich has been nominated to serve as the supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe, in addition to serving as chief of U.S. European Command. Grynkewich is ...

The defense bill, released by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS), differs from the amounts supported by the House in several areas, though it would authorize the same amount ...

It’s the caption of a military cartoon that Robert Behler, the Pentagon's former chief weapons tester, says once hung outside his office -- depicting a World War I soldier preparing to throw a hand ...

On June 4, 2025 acting Navy acquisition chief Brett Seidel, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities Vice Adm. James Pitts and Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for ...