U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act directed the secretary of defense to secure critical minerals from “reliable sources.”

Had these transactions happened, the industry today would be almost unrecognizable.

Combined spending on procurement and RDT&E will reach 36.6% of overall U.S. defense spending in fiscal 2027, a level not seen since the end of the Cold War.

The company first wants to move projects from high risk to high reward.

Blended wing body developer JetZero has received an FAA airworthiness certificate for its 12.5% scaled demo, clearing the uncrewed twin-engine aircraft.

Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.

The U.S. government says it welcomes a decision this week by a new Argentinian government to acquire an undisclosed number of used F-16s from Denmark.

Adm. John C. Aquilino, leader of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warns of China’s rapid military buildup and its ability to strike beyond the first island chain.

U.S. autonomous aviation startup Reliable Robotics has announced the receipt of two new contract awards from the Department of Defense and NASA.

Aerospace Corporation is immediately relocating its headquarters from El Segundo, California, to Chantilly, Virginia.

House and Senate appropriators seek to add dozens of aircraft to the Pentagon’s budget in a last-minute plan that needs to pass ahead of the March 22 deadline.

A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.

The Pentagon’s top leaders on March 19 pressed international partners to surge more aid to Ukraine.

Joby Aviation has agreed to deliver two aircraft to MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, widening its existing partnership with the U.S. Air Force.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet cosmonauts, has died.

The Pentagon appears to have reached peak spending and will have to determine how to meet its strategic objectives through redistribution and reprioritization

While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.

The Holloman High Speed Test Track has been used to support the recent surge of hypersonic test activity, but it needs upgrades.

The Pentagon is stepping up efforts to develop a domestic rare earths supply chain for the permanent magnets used in key defense systems.

The U.S. Navy will see its total aircraft procurement dip in fiscal 2025 compared to the previous year’s request.

The U.S. Air Force wants to spend $2.81 billion for development of its Next Generation Air Dominance manned aircraft.

The Pentagon on March 11 rolled out its $849.8 billion budget request for 2025.

Procurement of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-7 trainer is set to begin in fiscal 2025, but at half the number originally expected.

The service announced last month it would cancel the FARA program after spending $2 billion on development of competitive prototypes from Bell and Sikorsky.

The U.S. Air Force is changing course again on plans for its Boeing F-15EX Eagle II in the service’s fiscal 2025 budget request.