Defense

Cyber Operators Are Deployed in Place. The Pentagon Should Treat Them That Way

A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home …

DoD obligates $142B from reconciliation bill before deadline, leaving billions subject to cuts

Any funding from last year’s reconciliation bill left unspent by the Pentagon suffers an 8.3 percent cut known as …

Can’t start, won’t start: Over 150 new military programs face delay under a CR

The Defense Department will be operating under a continuing resolution until lawmakers successfully pass a fiscal 2027 b…

How Hegseth envisions a new Autonomous Warfare Command

The Pentagon wants to combine drone procurement and operations under a new command, but Congress will have a say.…

Over the Finnish line: Helsinki welcomes home first two F-35 jets

In 2021, Helsinki ordered 64 of the stealth aircraft in a deal valued at $9.4 billion as a replacement for aging US-made…

Jaw-Jaw With Belarus, Revisited Amid Ukraine War

In 2021, Michael Kimmage wrote, “Belarus and the Ukraine Trap,” where he argued the United States should ado…

Drone-maker Powerus, backed by Trump brothers, goes public

“Completing this transaction puts Powerus in a position to build at the scale our customers are asking for,” Powerus CEO…

DoD demo contract takes a step closer to beaming solar power from space

The Overview award is the second space-based solar power contract to be announced by the Pentagon’s Operational En…

Moroccan startup unveils prototye UAV that operates without GPS signal

The prototype now under testing is a four-meter wingspan UAV, but the company is aiming for larger airframe to be able t…

Ex-defense minister’s futuristic ‘Army of Robots’ raises eyebrows in Ukraine

A splashy promo video published by Mykhailo Fedorov envisions humanoid robots in combat, but not everyone is convinced i…

Battling sand and wind, Pentagon evaluates counter-drone tech at southern border exercise

A dozen vendors came to Yuma Proving Ground during Falcon Peak 26.2 to test their counter drone tech. Their goal: win a …

What Europe’s military air fleets will look like in 30 years

Breaking Defense’s roundtable looks into a crystal ball to discuss the more distant future for the continent&#8217…

MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation

During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In th…

School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future

In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study …

Hegseth plans ‘Autonomous Warfare Command’

The military’s 12th combatant command was among a slew of announcements in a Quantico speech Wednesday.…

Defense Business Brief: End-of-fiscal-year advice for founders; Navy drone boats; Powerus to go public

Hegseth announces plans for new 4-star drone command, further general officer cuts

Hegseth also announced a new study group led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. …

Saronic breaks ground on new Port Alpha shipyard in Texas

The shipyard is being built from the ground up in Brownsville, Texas. …

Army taps 5 companies for PrSM Inc 4 prototypes

Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX and Mach Industries were awarded Other Transaction Agreements for an undisclose…

EXCLUSIVE: How the DIA measures a military’s ‘Will to Fight’

After underestimating Ukraine’s forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency adopted a new analytical framework to try …

Triumph or Procrastination? Experts Split on the Trump-Xi Summit

Over the better part of three days, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summi…

White House names nominees for SPACECOM, Navy No. 2

Overseeing the ongoing move of SPACECOM’s headquarters from its current home at Peterson SFB, Colo., to Huntsville…

China opens training center with Laos, marking third overseas military base

Satellite imagery shows the new facility is built in part on a purported old US airstrip used during the Vietnam War.…

Boeing nabs $2.4 billion deal for more F-15EX fighters

The award came on the same day that the planemaker secured a contract to build a sixth-generation fighter jet for the US…