U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

By Brian Everstine
Service leaders in September 2023 first announced the plan to create six Air Task Forces.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
Savoie discusses the company’s evolving business strategy amid a tense geopolitical environment.
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The measure, known as the chairman’s mark, cuts $2.97 billion from the procurement accounts to help cover the $3.83 billion increase for personnel spending.
Budget, Policy & Operations

William J. Lynn III and Steve Grundman
In a healthy defense industrial ecosystem, companies occupying the middle ground—between the many small companies and a few large ones—perform important systemic roles.
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s pick of AeroVironment’s Switchblade 600 in the Replicator program allows the company to increase its manufacturing capacity to meet demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s push to adopt more commercial communications systems is raising concerns with the DOD's largest provider of resilient communications,
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A Russian space weapon the U.S. claims is in development would occupy a unique orbital area and might threaten all other spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The leaders signed a trilateral research, development, test and evaluation projects agreement.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants its new command focused on modernization to begin this work this year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on April 26 announced a major $6 billion list of new-build equipment bound for Ukraine,
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
L3Harris (LHX) posted better-than-expected results in the first quarter.
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is surging a major $1 billion tranche of aid to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The American military engages targets first with the longest-range interceptor available—the most effective, but also the most costly, a Pentagon official says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
U.S. aircraft and ships took down scores of drones and missiles, including several before they were launched in Yemen, as part of the broad defense of Israel.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The full details of the multinational, multilayered defense against the Iranian attack are still kept secret.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft “destroyed a number” of Iranian one-way attack drones used in Tehran’s direct attack on Israel.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Space Command has extended invitations to France, Germany and New Zealand to join a high-level collaborative group on military space operations.
Space Symposium

By Tony Osborne
Trudeau's comments emerge after the AUKUS nations revealed they are considering Japan’s accession as a “potential collaborator” in some elements of Pillar Two.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
CEO Steve Isakowitz speaks about the transformation underway at the only U.S. government-backed R&D center committed exclusively to space enterprise.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
Exosonic is promoting its recently flown EX-3M Trident subscale uncrewed aircraft system as it seeks additional funding to develop a full-scale version.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. government pressure campaign has yet to produce visible results for Russia to drop alleged plans to eventually launch a co-orbital space weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on April 2 revealed its long-awaited strategy for integrating commercial space capabilities into national defense operations.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
The U.S. is marshaling unprecedented resources to shore up its chipmaking capabilities. Results thus far are mixed.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Matthew Fulco
The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act directed the secretary of defense to secure critical minerals from “reliable sources.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

Stephen Perry
Had these transactions happened, the industry today would be almost unrecognizable.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain