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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s memo looks to expand America’s drone capability to conventional troops across the ...
The PLA is increasingly practicing integrated joint operations across theater commands.
Rare earth and critical minerals are essential to powering today's modern and digital world, as well as the U.S. military ...
With the peak hurricane season looming, forecasters will be without key information starting Monday because the Defense Department said it will no longer provide them with data from the weather ...
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
Four big tech executives the Army directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, with no military background, will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense ...
President Vladimir Putin said Russia plans to cut defense spending, acknowledging growing strains on the budget even as he insisted that reductions would depend on winning his war in Ukraine.
Iran’s defense minister has traveled to diplomatic and economic ally China on his first reported trip abroad since a 12-day clash with Israel that briefly dragged the US into a new regional ...
The Department of Defense's fiscal 2026 budget request includes $25 billion for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense initiative.
PARIS — Safran Electronics & Defense CEO Franck Saudo spoke to Defense News at the Paris Air Show last week about the changing battlefield and use of AI, as well as areas of future growth ...
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their secret mountaintop radar site was overrun by North Vietnamese commandos.
According to just-released budget documents and testimony from senior Pentagon leaders, the FY2026 Department of Defense (DoD) budget is less about expanding the force and more about retooling it.