The U.S. Congress is moving forward with a government-wide spending bill that would provide $728.5 billion for the Defense Department in fiscal 2022, placing a priority on protection of the Indo-Pacific region, space capabilities and assistance for Ukraine.

While the 2022 growth rate is well below the double digits achieved through the 1990s and early 2000s, in dollars it is $15 billion, the largest-ever annual increase.

Chinese aircraft intrusions still accounted for 70% of all Japanese scrambles in February but Russian aircraft movements in were unusually high.

SpaceX has delivered Starlink terminals to Ukraine, worked to bypass jamming of the devices and is contemplating future space projects in the country.

The U.S. government is looking at how it could backfill the fighter fleet of Poland should that nation donate aircraft to Ukraine.

Middle Eastern nations need to increase levels of defense research and development (R&D) if they want to achieve their goals of developing more domestic capability, a think tank has warned.

Further requests from Airbus are delaying the signing of a contract for the demonstration phase of the Future Combat Air System, according to Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is confident one of his key priorities—the development of a UAS that will fly along with an advanced fighter—is realistic in the near term based on multiple efforts in the U.S. and Australia.