U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

The Defense Innovation Board (DIB) is calling for the U.S. to act with greater urgency to field uncrewed systems to make up ground lost to competitors.

There will still be billions of unused authority for the incoming Trump administration to decide what to do with, Pentagon officials say.

Anduril plans to raise annual capacity at the facility by tenfold to more than 6,000 solid rocket motors for tactical missiles.

The Pentagon designation complies with Section 1260H of the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.

U.S. Marine Corps MV-22s will get cockpit voice recorders installed under an upcoming contract, 24 years after they were mandated by Congress.

Antimony is a crucial material for aerospace and defense.

If all options are exercised under the $1.45 billion indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award, it would represent the company’s largest award.

The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) lists spacecraft as one of 15 priority areas in its Fiscal 2025 Investment Strategy.

Kendall took over as the service’s top civilian in 2021 and will leave office in the next few weeks.

The move is the latest sign that Western countries are working to boost the output of critical munitions.

The Army plans to stage an operational demonstration of the technology in fiscal 2028.

In February 2024, the U.S. Space Force set up a pilot program called Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking (TacSRT).

Trump is nominating Stephen Feinberg, CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, to serve as deputy defense secretary to the still-to-be-confirmed Pete Hegseth.

The undefinitized contact action for Lot 18 of F-35 production keeps the government funding stream open to Lockheed and its supply chain as the talks continue.

Govini estimates that more than 20,000 individual parts used by the Pentagon are impacted by the export controls, affecting more than 1,000 weapons systems.

The Pentagon will slowly return most of its V-22 fleet to flight and to operations with a better understanding of parts failures in the tiltrotor’s gearbox.

The 23-year-old fighter program will be revamped again for combat requirements in the 2030s, if it can overcome skepticism from new quarters.

Startups embrace a software-defined aerospace strategy to aid the U.S. attempts to match China’s manufacturing might.

The Senate passed the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 85-14.

The annual China Military Power Report estimates China’s nuclear arsenal totaled about 600 warheads at the end of last year, a gain of 100 compared to the end of 2022.

Though Red Cat reported modest revenue of $4.3 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2025, the company’s forecast for 2025 is bullish.

The FBI has received more than 5,000 reported drone sightings over the past few weeks, with about 100 leads generated.

California startup Traverse Aero has launched a fundraising round to build and fly a full-scale demonstrator of its hybrid-electric VTOL Orca.

The companies leading a Pentagon-backed antimony project have signed a MOU, boosting the U.S.’ growing effort to reduce critical-mineral dependency on China

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has rolled out the latest large tranche of aid for Ukraine as he faced up to an uncertain future for supplying Kyiv and his own department’s legacy on the issue.