The Marine Corps must own the technical data rights for the platforms it operates, the service's top officer said yesterday, describing a situation in which a forward-based F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ...

In a new memo released on X, Hegseth, referencing the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide attack at the Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate, wrote DOD has spent the past three months reviewing “this ...

President Trump, flanked in the Oval Office by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several GOP senators, promised a huge windfall for U.S. defense companies today as he officially launched the new ...

The beleaguered KC-46 Pegasus fleet has an availability rate around 51%, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said today, pointing to efforts between the service and Boeing to resolve several ...

The May 16, 2025 Defense Department inspector general's report "provides lessons learned related to contract oversight that were identified in 16 audit and evaluation reports that the DOD Office of ...

Recently sworn-in Air Force Secretary Troy Meink will receive his first briefing Friday on the beleaguered LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, which is in the midst of a major ...

A small UUV is defined as less than 45 inches in length and less than 200 pounds. The Navy is aiming for industry options to include a UUV that can have at least an eight-hour endurance at three knots ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Monday that senior leaders have identified $48 billion in savings over the next five years that could result from the recent Army Transformation Initiative.

In May 2025, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, Chief of Staff Gen. David Allin and Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman submitted their service's fiscal year 2026 posture statement to the ...

The MOU follows the signing of a letter of intent by United States and UAE military leadership to establish a new “major defense partnership,” which would see DIU in charge of facilitating potential ...

The Pentagon has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $1 billion contract to produce up to 55 Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors, a move that comes as defense leaders reconsider the future of the ...

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