U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

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.

Defense contractors can consider these points to mitigate uncertainties surrounding the incoming Trump administration.

A new decadal survey of future solar and space physics research calls for an increased focus on the Sun and its interactions across the Solar System.

So far, the U.S. has committed more than $62 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since Joe Biden took office as president in 2021.

The Prometheus effort began in 2018 to perform science and tech experiments in the extreme reentry environment through a low-cost, high-cadence flight testbed.

The hybrid-electric, STOL aircraft demonstrated its lower acoustic signature and potential transport uses in distributed military operations during an event.

The CARD report calls on members states to cooperate further.

The company touts its two-seat demonstrator’s work to validate concepts that are key to planned larger variant.

A four-year-old concept to adapt uncrewed aircraft to role-play as adversaries during training missions is back in development after a two-year hiatus.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is under pressure to field two advanced new capabilities by 2035.

The Defense Department is going shopping in a bid to gain information on everything from loitering attack munitions to Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Miller comes from Northrop Grumman, where he was the vice president for engineering in its aeronautics sector for a year.

The Defense Department on Nov. 14 issued its latest annual report on UAP from its All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

The U.S. and its allies have yet to reduce reliance on Beijing for materials that are essential to the defense industrial base.

The new systems under Replicator 1.2 will be delivered by August 2025.

Hegseth would succeed Lloyd Austin, a retired Army four-star general.

The DIU has maintained its “Blue UAS” program since 2020.

The Pentagon has historically kept the spaceplane’s capabilities and mission objectives under wraps.

Military spending rose 14% over President Biden’s four-year term to $841.4 billion in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bill signed into law last December.

Most defense programs end up more expensive than planned, but the B-21 is still cheaper than the Air Force expected. Supporters say it is time to buy.

Kymeta has unveiled its second multi-orbit, on-the-move flat-panel antenna, the Goshawk u8.

The defense contractor’s revenue and earnings per share in the September quarter both exceeded Wall Street’s consensus estimate.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun met Oct. 30 at the Pentagon.

European uncrewed aircraft systems developer Tekever is scouting a location for a U.S. site in a global expansion push as it teams up with Droneway.

Sikorsky has won a contract from the U.S. to build more than 70 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to be exported to Austria, Brazil, Greece, Sweden and Thailand.