Boeing Picked For Navy’s F/A-XX Carrier Fighter
The Pentagon on Tuesday announced Boeing [BA] beat out Northrop Grumman [NOC] to develop the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft program, in a contract expected […]
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CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year
A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]
House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature
The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 11, sending the temporary funding measure that also includes funds to support ongoing shipbuilding […]
Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin Support For Marines’ JLTV Second Supplier Effort
Wisconsin’s GOP congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to support legislative language enabling the Marine Corps to potentially bring in a second Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) supplier. The […]
Senate’s CR Has Ship Construction Exemption, Forgoes White House’s Battleship, Munitions Requests
The Senate on Sunday released a bipartisan stopgap funding proposal to keep the government open through December 11, which would also secure additional funds to support ongoing shipbuilding efforts and […]
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Col. Rob Kinney, Chief of Fires, XVIII Airborne Corps, Discusses Scarlet Dragon 26.3
Defense Daily’s Cal Biesecker talked with Col. Rob Kinney, chief of fires for Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps on Sept. 16 at Fort Bragg, N.C., during the Scarlet Dragon 26.3 experimentation […]
Navy/USMC
Saronic’s Port Alpha Breaks Ground With LCU-1700 Backlog, Open To Building Navy Modules
Ahead of the planned Wednesday groundbreaking on Saronic Technologies’ new Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, company officials said it will start off with a solid backlog that is pushing […]
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USAF Plans Participation of Early CCA Production Aircraft In Emerald Flag
The U.S. Air Force wants to use General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, Inc.‘s (GA-ASI) FQ-42A Vengeance and the Anduril Industries FQ-44A Fury in the Emerald Flag Exercise this December. Those aircraft are […]
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Avio Breaks Ground On New Solid Rocket Motor Facility Expected To Begin Production In 2029
Avio USA on Tuesday broke ground on the initial phase of a planned 860,000 square foot solid rocket motor complex in Southern Virginia that is expected to begin production in […]
Space
21 Tranche 1, Transport Layer Satellites Delivered to Vandenberg, Northrop Grumman Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has delivered 21 satellites to Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., for Tranche 1 of the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s Transport […]
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The Pentagon’s AI Acceleration Challenge
By Zhenia Klevitsky, Defense Opinion Writer The Department of Defense’s race to operationalize artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a new phase. The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allocated significant […]
Optimizing Data Centers to Meet Growing Mission Demands
By Jason Dunn-Potter, Defense Opinion Writer A century ago, innovation in national defense wasn’t defined by data, but by dominance. After World War I, the aircraft carrier became one of […]
Small Businesses Struggle to Contribute to National Defense
By Nancy Langer, Defense Opinion Writer Whenever I was in a tight spot in a war zone I always thought, “why don’t I have a gun?” As a humanitarian I […]
Why Brussels’ Spectrum Move is About More than Satellites
By Jean-Francois Morizur, Ph.D., Defense Opinion Writer. European Commission leaders recently said they want to reserve two-thirds of a coveted spectrum band for operators working within the EU. This is a proposal, and […]
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From the Strait of Hormuz to underground bunkers, U.S. military operations in the Middle East have shaped modern warfare — but how well do you really know them? Test your […]
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