Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke to shipbuilders in Newport News, VA today, reiterating a tough message he delivered to defense companies months ago and emphasizing the coming crackdown on ...

Incidents of deadly or highly destructive mishaps involving Air Force aircraft dropped in fiscal year 2025 compared to FY-24, according to data shared with Inside Defense . Overall, 19 Class A mishaps ...

Service providers would finance, design, construct, operate and maintain the infrastructure for Space Launch Complex-14, the southernmost complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, the request for ...

On Jan. 5, 2026 the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S2MARTS) released an updated request for solutions for the "Drone Dominance opportunity." ...

Senior uniformed Pentagon acquisition leaders are making a coordinated public case that this time, long-promised acquisition reform will actually stick. In a joint op-ed published by Breaking Defense ...

The Defense Microelectronics Activity has awarded 10 companies positions on an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for engineering development support services, the Pentagon recently ...

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The overnight operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife was the culmination of months of preparation, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, who ...

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F Chinook Block II aircraft to two combat aviation brigades starting in fiscal year 2028. In September, the Army awarded its Lot 4 production contract for three CH-47F Block II aircraft at a cost of ...

Army and Marine Corps colonels talked through problems pairing drones with ground combat formations during a first-of-its-kind symposium hosted by General Dynamics Land Systems earlier this month that ...

The Air Force is not envisioning its Collaborative Combat Aircraft as "one-trick ponies," a top service official told Inside Defense, but rather as multirole platforms able to complete a variety of ...