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Army taps 5 vendors to move forward with nuclear microreactor prototypes
Up to $2.2 billion could be divvied up among the handful of vendors. …
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Army selects 5 companies to build nuclear microreactors on bases, under new $2 billion deal
The service’s plans for 20 on-base microreactors come amid a uranium enrichment shortage.…
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Hegseth stands by LaNeve nomination amid reported lawmaker hesitation
The Pentagon is attempting to “lock in” LaNeve’s nomination for the next Army Chief of Staff amid law…
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Boeing nabs whopping $131 billion F-15 deal
The contract covers over a decade of potential work for US and international F-15 fighter jets.…
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“Zero Problems” Abroad, Plenty at Home: Reassessing al Sharaa’s Leadership in Syria
In 2025, Rob Geist Pinfold wrote, “The March Massacres Show That Syria Urgently Needs Solutions, Not Sanctions,…
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Air Force awards $766 million for B-52 radar modernization
One contract worth up to $603 million was issued to RTX subsidiary Raytheon, while a second valued at roughly $163 milli…
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The Marine Corps’ Plan for the Future of Ground Combat
The Marine Corps just released its plan to fight against adversaries on land, and Ryan had the two architects of the pla…
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‘Shifted our whole mentality’: Army long-range EW system to go into production in 2027
The Army originally envisioned a larger, bespoke capability, but Mark Saxon, deputy project manager for Electromagnetic …
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Spain signs off on $6.3 billion budget for joint MRTT buy with Poland
Poland’s minister of national defense said today that “at least” seven aircraft will be purchased, with his country rece…
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Senior officers advised Hegseth to keep civilian-protection program. He axed it anyway
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission. …
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Treasury sanctions Iranian hackers tied to critical-infrastructure breaches
Four of the five people named in the cyber action were also charged last week in the Justice Department’s expanded Mabna…
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Would Wartime Elections Save Democracy or End It?
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spec…
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From Hormuz to the Caucasus: The New Geography of Energy Security
Every crisis in the Middle East returns the world’s attention to the same stretch of water. When tankers are seize…
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Space-based interceptor contractors passed first Golden Dome milestone: Guetlein
The Defense Department will not decide whether to produce operational space-based interceptors until after industry demo…
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Five things Space Command says it needs to win tomorrow’s wars
Gen. Whiting adds to previous calls for new tech in his final speech to the SMD Symposium.…
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Day 2 of the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium
More photos from the expo floor at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala. …
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TACOM plans further industry engagement amid ‘readiness crisis’
“We have an aging fleet, and we have modernization on the horizon, but it’s not coming fast enough,” Brig. G…
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Army selects air defense unit to prepare for Golden Dome mission
“Leading up to [2028], we’re going to do a lot of experimentation and test with this unit to make sure that weR…
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Why patching networks against cyberattacks is ‘very scary’ in the age of AI
The long-standing mantra that certain operational systems must be continuously available and can’t be brought down for a…
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L3Harris launches new facility in Rhode Island to produce undersea training systems
The 50,000-square-foot facility at ProvPort is a $6 million investment that aims to leverage local partnership to provid…
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Defeating modern threats with capable, affordable munitions
[Sponsored] L3Harris’ launched effects portfolio comes from a pedigree of proven capabilities and decades of experience.…
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DARPA seeks ‘unconstrained, radical’ concepts for next-gen hypersonic cruise missile
The Pentagon’s secretive research agency says new advances are needed to counter adversary air defenses, along with inno…
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Russia’s Blurry Line Between Science and Sabotage Beneath the Ocean’s Surface
In 2025, Nurlan Aliyev wrote, “The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet,” where he argued t…
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Army shifts autonomy strategy to lean more on ‘awesome vendors’
An Army official told Breaking Defense the service’s original plan to build a software backbone itself makes less …
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