Pete Hegseth's first National Defense Strategy lays out how the Pentagon will execute guidance from the White House.

The first 400 patents are “the freebie, the door buster” to get industry excited about an in-progress, unprecedented database linking all 216 DoD labs, Emil Michael told reporters.

All we want from Denmark, for national and international security, [is] to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay [with] this land on which we're going to build the greatest ...

"This is a new type of capability. It's not completely the Intelligence Community supporting the [Defense Department]. It's not completely a DoD mission without the help of the Intelligence Community.

HASC’s version of the NDAA sticks closely to the Pentagon’s own FY26 budget — a departure from a typical year where lawmakers divert funding to bolster high-priority programs.