U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) relented on Pentagon nominees, clearing the Senate to approve almost all of the senior officers awaiting promotions.

Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. have released additional details for Pillar II of their AUKUS agreement.

Japan has grounded its fleet of six MV-22s in response to the crash and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said that the U.S. military should take the same action.

Thailand’s 2023 Defense & Security exhibition here featured an entirely new security and geopolitical landscape since it was last held a year ago.

The surge of military aid to Israel and related movement of air defenses to U.S. bases in the Middle East has meant a peak tasking of American airlift.

A new research paper from George Mason University suggests fears and assumptions of a shrinking and overly concentrated defense industrial base are overblown.

The U.S. aid amounts to Ukraine have dwindled in comparison to earlier batches as the Defense Department awaits a supplemental funding package from Congress.

Ursa Major Technologies, manufacturer of liquid rocket motors for launch vehicles, plans to offer 3D printed solid rocket motors for munitions.

X-Bow Systems, a startup that 3D prints solid rocket motors and propellants, has closed an “interim funding round” led by Lockheed Martin Ventures.

WAAS is undergoing a major upgrade and preparing to incorporate the Pentagon’s new L5 civil signal for aviation safety services.

The spacecraft is the Pentagon’s first experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.

The resumption of military-to-military talks between the U.S. and China will start with theater commanders.

The Raytheon SM-6s will be fitted onto the new South Korean Navy KDX Batch II destroyers, the first of which—christened Jeongjo the Great—has begun sea trials.

The Senate is moving forward on a rules change to the nomination process to get around an ongoing hold on nominees.

Geopolitical tensions, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are driving the strongest defense market demand since 2008-09.

The panelists spoke Nov. 7 during a discussion on the first day of Aviation Week’s A&D Programs event in Washington.

The Pentagon on Nov. 3 confirmed that unarmed MQ-9s have been operating above Gaza for weeks to help with hostage recovery efforts.

The Pentagon on Nov. 3 announced another $425 million in aid.

The Israeli air force detected the missile coming from the southeast, and scrambled F-35Is, which Israel nicknames the “Adir,” to intercept the weapon.

Kuva Space of Finland has raised €16.6 million ($17.6 million) in funding to start building and launching a hyperspectral cubesat constellation.

The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, as part of its congressionally mandated task to identify UAP, stood up a new reporting method on Oct. 31.

The Pentagon wants to build a new nuclear gravity bomb, aiming to modernize part of its strategic stockpile by replacing one of the most potent variants of its B61.

A People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-11 flew within 10 ft. of a U.S. Air Force B-52 in the South China Sea this week.

Drones and rockets from Iranian-backed militias have targeted U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria 16 times in the past 10 days.

The global approach to MRO of the F-35 needs to be a model for other weapons as the Pentagon looks to co-develop and co-produce critical systems, the DOD says.