The Italian Navy flagship, the aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550), has arrived at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, to become F-35B certified.

The Pentagon has disclosed that two DARPA satellites scheduled to launch on the Transporter-1 mission were damaged during payload processing.

The Pentagon has a new China Task Force headed by Ely Ratner, a former adviser to President Joe Biden, that is charged with assessing whether the Defense Department is poised to outpace China in a “technology competition.”