Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Apr 01, 2024
After years of scattered attempts to keep pilots in service failed to change the trend, the Air Force is renewing outreach to its aircrews.
Mar 29, 2024
The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act directed the secretary of defense to secure critical minerals from “reliable sources.”
Mar 28, 2024
Now in its fourth year, the European Commission-led EDF aims to support defense research, development and cooperation among member states.
Mar 25, 2024
The agency’s disruptive approach to space acquisition has produced many contracts in a tight timeline, though its biggest tests are yet to come.
Mar 19, 2024
Rising demand for weapons stocks is driving a review of European missile manufacturing.
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Aug 01, 2025
Germany is preparing to deliver two further Patriot air and missile launchers to Ukraine as Western countries look to help Kyiv protect itself.
Aug 01, 2025
Advocates for more scientific rigor in studying unidentified anomalous phenomena have renewed calls for wider data collection and proliferated sensor systems.
Jul 30, 2025
Pakistan has made progress in recapitalizing its fighter fleet in the last two years.
Jul 30, 2025
Germany’s combined defense funding is slated to reach around $125 billion in the coming year, taking a further step up from already elevated spending levels.
Jul 30, 2025
BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn says talks with Turkey to sign an MOU over the purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon combat jets are “progressing pretty quickly.”
Jul 30, 2025
Denmark has become the latest European country to buy into the Diehl IRIS-T SLM air and missile defense program.
Jul 29, 2025
Boeing avoided further charges against some of its troubled defense programs in the second quarter.
Jul 29, 2025
Russia has launched a crash program to harden military airfields near the border with Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s successful strikes with one-way attack UAS.