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Company will press ahead on aeronautics project in hopes of turning it into a profitable production program. While the company did not... Read More

The British Army has spent £3.2 billion on its Ajax family of vehicles, but as major problems beset the programme and its role in the... Read More

When a Chinese ferry joined the People’s Liberation Army Navy for an amphibious landing exercise in July 2020, observers noticed... Read More

In a fake battle for Taiwan, U.S. forces lost network access almost immediately. Hyten has issued four directives to help change that. A... Read More

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in concert with the Navy, today fired four SM-6 Dual II missiles against a “raid” of two... Read More

“More tooth, less tail” is a common refrain from defense leaders in search of more combat power as budgets have flatlined. No... Read More

The U.S. Army has selected five teams to proceed onward to the next phase of the revamped Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV)... Read More

“We've got FFG-62. We're going to have another DDG variant at some point and then we've got the unmanned stuff. How do I introduce it... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed former Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall to be the 26th Air Force secretary in a voice vote... Read More

India has become an important strategic partner to the United States in the field of artificial intelligence as the government in New Dehli... Read More

As the U.S. military is almost out of Afghanistan, and the Afghan government seems unable to fend off the Taliban onslaught, the fate of... Read More

A flurry of recent high-profile cyber operations targeting the United States, including the SolarWinds hack by Russia, the Microsoft Exchange... Read More

In 1919, Ralph D. Paine began a brief history of the old U.S. merchant marine with these words: “The story of American ships and... Read More

Senator Tom Cotton recently released a report detailing manifold flaws in the U.S. Navy’s warfighting capacity; at the end of it, he... Read More

The best way to ensure Tehran doesn’t gain the capability to make a nuclear weapon is for the U.S. to empower its ally. With... Read More

A leaked audio recording of a group commander at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, lecturing airmen after sorties were canceled due to crew... Read More

The Air Force’s AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon is poised to be the first hypersonic offensive system to move from... Read More

On July 7, Energy Fuels Inc. made its first regular shipment of a rare earth carbonate called monazite from the United States to Europe. The... Read More

As before, the service’s problem is cultural. A course correction is needed. The recent report commissioned by members of Congress on... Read More

With a budget of more than $60 billion a year, the U.S. Intelligence Community is a behemoth of agencies, offices, and capabilities. The... Read More

“We’re painting with broad strokes, but we're diving into what missions of the future will look like. The technology is not quite... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee would fund the U.S. Army’s entire list of unfunded requirements — also... Read More

The bases will be renamed Schriever Space Force Base, Peterson Space Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station WASHINGTON —... Read More

According to the Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ), in 2020 the United States wasted $2.08 trillion on bad software and... Read More

Security will be at top of agenda for U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue today, and when U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Iraqi Prime Minister... Read More

As military operations in space move farther from the Earth, the head of Space Operations Command believes Guardians joining the Space Force... Read More

The 15-square-mile campus in Wuhan will serve as school, research lab, incubator, and talent cultivator. China—the country that has... Read More