"You can be assured we will do what is necessary to defend our cities, our people, our infrastructure, but it doesn't mean that we will always immediately shoot down a plane," said Rutte, appearing at ...

The Air Force is “beginning to manufacture the first article” of the sixth-generation F-47 stealth fighter, Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin revealed today, with ...

The continuing resolution does not include $3.9 billion requested by the White House for the Columbia-class submarine, but gives funding flexibility to other key programs.

The bill also directs the Director of National Intelligence to appoint a single official to oversee the acquisition of commercially available information by all IC agencies.

Maj. Gen. William J. Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, speaks with U.S. and Israeli participants in exercise Cyber Dome VII at the Georgia Cyber Center in Augusta, Ga., Dec. 8, ...

SMD 2025 — The Trump administration’s Golden Dome initiative to create an all-encompassing air and missile defense shield over the US will be the most ambitious Pentagon weapons program since Ronald ...

US Navy Virginia-class submarine, USS North Carolina, docks at the HMAS Stirling port in Rockingham on the outskirts of Perth on August 4, 2023. A US Navy Virginia-class submarine arrived at HMAS ...

GEOINT 2025 — As the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) rolls out its AI-powered imagery analysis software system Maven to more and more users, it also is seeing a sizable reduction in ...

The former USS Enterprise (CVN-65) sits in port at Newport News Shipbuilding awaiting final inactivation. (Justin Katz/Breaking Defense) WASHINGTON — The Navy awarded a $536 million contract to ...

As the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference comes to a close, Breaking Defense’s Lee Ferran and Michael Marrow dive into new details about Israel’s strike targeting Hamas ...

MAUI — NATO has put $728 million in common funding into a “capability program plan” to flesh out the 32-member alliance’s new(ish) Space Operations Center, according to a senior NATO officer. “It is ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force’s innovation hub, AFWERX, has awarded LeoLabs a contract to demonstrate a new radar system aimed at tracking objects in very low Earth orbit (VLEO), the ...