The U.S. Space Force is assessing whether to recommend the creation of a Space National Guard or the formation of a combined active duty and Reserve component that has members of the Air National Guard. Since 2020, Space Force has said that 1,500 of its members are members of the Army and Air ...

The Navy’s top officer this week argued the service’s fiscal year 2023 request to retire 24 ships aims to redirect resources from expensive ship fixes and operating costs to increased weapons production lines and balance other costs. “Our entering argument is what can we afford, so in other ...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), ...

The Navy’s top officer Thursday castigated two companies that build Navy submarines for underperforming on contracted maintenance work on attack submarines. “Based on the fact that we continue to build a viable submarine force, and we know that we don’t have the capacity in our public ...

RTX Ventures, a capital investment group recently set up by Raytheon Technologies [RTX], on Thursday said it made a strategic investment in the start-up company Hermeus Corp., which is developing hypersonic aircraft for commercial and defense applications. The value of the investment wasn’t ...

Faulty missile tubes that earlier consumed months of schedule margin on the next-generation U.S. nuclear-armed, ballistic missile submarines are not pacing the schedule for the boats anymore, the admiral in charge of the U.S. program said Thursday. “I retain margin on missile tubes,” Read Adm. ...