Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks livestreamed from AUSA Annual 2026.

WarMatrix is an AI-powered system meant to keep human judgement central to wargaming and was marked operational during an event in late March.

Katie Livingstone is the Ukraine correspondent for Defense News and Military Times. Based in Kyiv, she has covered Russia's full-scale invasion since its first days. She is a former Fulbright fellow ...

Michael Scanlon is a defense journalist covering air and space warfare. A former U.S. Air Force A-10 crew chief, he has supported land and sea programs for the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast ...

A U.S. Navy SEAL fires a Switchblade 300 Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System during training. (MC1 Chelsea D. Meiller/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army kicked off a program to quickly provide ...

Ursa Major fires its Hadley engine in a 2020 test at its facility in Berthoud, Colo. (Imad Arain/Ursa Major) WASHINGTON — When Joe Laurienti founded space propulsion company Ursa Major in 2015, he ...

The Greek legend of the Trojan horse is a tale of deception, a story children everywhere learn as youngsters. Yet America seems to have forgotten what befell Troy, and, consequently, has instead ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research are developing a follow-on to the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project, pictured above. (NET Solutions ...

At least 31 directed-energy initiatives are underway across the U.S. Department of Defense, according to an industry advocacy group. (Jim Kendall/U.S. Army) The U.S. military is tinkering with ...

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts is seen here at Fort Myer, Va., in May 2023. (Colin Demarest/Staff) WASHINGTON — A longtime U.S. Army acquisition officer and aviator has died in a plane crash near ...

The C5ISR Center is working with industry to develop secure radio communications for manned-unmanned teaming. (Pvt. First Class James Crowley/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is seeing ...

An F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 335th Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., releases a flare over a bombing range during a November 2023 exercise. The new advanced electronic ...