UK Defense Secretary John Healey has reiterated the new Labour government’s commitment to increasing defense spending to the equivalent of 2.5% of GDP.

The Japanese Defense Ministry (MOD) has released details of its fiscal 2025 budget request, which called for a further 9.4% increase to military spending—part of Tokyo’s wider Defense Build-Up Program (DBP).

Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s new CEO, announced the move in a statement to employees just before the close of business on Sept. 20.

Iraq is purchasing South Korea's KM-SAM II medium-range, ground-based air defense system, becoming the third Middle Eastern nation to acquire it.

Paris has revealed further details of France and Italy's plans to acquire a new version of the SAMP/T as it rushes upgrade air and missile defense capabilities.

Increasingly, defense plans in Europe are converting to contracts for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 and Eurofighter’s Typhoon, giving industry executives on both sides of the Atlantic reason to be optimistic.

U.S. Special Operations Command now intends to buy a fleet of 62 of the L3Harris and Air Tractor aircraft.

The EU effort to create a sovereign satellite communications network, known as IRIS², should be unaffected by the exit of Thierry Breton from the EC, program backers say.