The Pentagon is preparing the next round of its Drone Dominance competition for August, when vendors will face new operational challenges designed to test their systems in contested battlefield ...

NATO is rewriting its alliance-wide air and missile defense plan for the first time in decades, reflecting growing concern about Russian missile and drone attacks and the need to better integrate ...

Dunford served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 2015 to 2019 under former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Before that, he was the 36th commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and led the ...

The Pentagon's acting comptroller said today that $11.3 billion is a "ballpark" number for the cost thus far of the U.S. conflict with Iran. Jay Hurst, the official performing the duties of the ...

In a March 10, 2026 letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) seeks information on the cost of U.S. operations in Iran and when the ...

An online marketplace for unmanned aerial systems launched by the Army earlier this year will soon expand to encompass the entire Defense Department, the service's acquisition chief said today.

A Joint Strike Fighter program with its stated readiness goals, the Pentagon is directing $1 billion in reconciliation funds in 2026 to purchase spare par ...

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DIU initiated a competitive commercial solutions opening for CAMP last spring, with the goal of rapidly prototyping and fielding a long-range, ...

Union-represented shipbuilders at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division are set to receive an immediate 18% or higher base-wage increase -- the largest single wage increase in the division's history -- ...