After Congress on Wednesday evening passed a three-month stopgap funding measure to avert a potential government shutdown, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called on lawmakers to reach a bipartisan agreement on full-year appropriations this fall. “To ensure the U.S. military remains prepared ...

One of the main challenges that the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) faces is ensuring the reliability of open sources to help form an accurate picture for the intelligence community, the agency's director said on Thursday. While the IC has had "a pretty good idea of how well ...

Cybersecurity Law and Compliance Hosted by the American Conference Institute, the Cybersecurity Law and Compliance conference is taking place on January 29-30, 2025, at the Hilton Towers Arlington, VA. With new requirements in place from government agencies, ensure your organization’s ...

The U.S. will provide Romania with a new $920 million Foreign Military Financing (FMF) loan to help the NATO ally purchase defense items, the State Department said on Wednesday. The State Department said the FMF direct loan will support Romania as it undertakes a “major military modernization ...

The Missile Defense Agency on Wednesday selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] over RTX [RTX] to continue developing the counter-hypersonic missile defense program, the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). MDA said this means Northrop Grumman will continue its work under the existing Other Transaction ...

The Army has selected American Rheinmetall Vehicles and HDT Expeditionary Systems to build prototypes for its Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S-MET) Increment II program, the next iteration of its cargo-carrying ground robots. The two firms received a combined $22 million in deals to each ...

The Army’s latest Future Vertical Lift (FVL)-led Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) focused on the service’s pursuit of new Launched Effects capabilities, gathering data to inform a requirements update planned for late fiscal year 2025. Brig. Gen. Cain Baker, director of the Army� ...

The Navy’s $9.47 billion award to HII’s [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding this week for three Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships and one America-class amphibious assault ship includes several incentives to help the company retain and grow its workforce, a Navy acquisition ...

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) tactical air and land forces panel, has asked U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall for an accounting of the Department of the Air Force's reliance on Chinese suppliers. A Sept. 25 letter to Kendall from Wittman ...

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are to propose an amendment to the Senate's version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill to increase the number of F-35 developmental test aircraft for future upgrades from six to ...