Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who pushed for unmanned and AI integration at US Fifth Fleet, would take the helm of US Central ...

WASHINGTON — The House passed a massive GOP-backed funding package today, paving the way for Congress to add $150 billion in defense spending aimed at boosting major Trump administration ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force is pushing back its schedule for modernizing the Eisenhower-era B-52 Stratofortress with a new radar by a year amid integration challenges, according to a new report ...

SEA AIR SPACE 2024 — The Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray hasn’t yet hit the carrier deck, but Boeing believes now is the time for the sea service to start thinking about upgrades for the tanker drone ...

WASHINGTON — Steve Nordlund, who has led Boeing Defense’s fighter jet business for the last two years, is retiring, Breaking Defense has learned. Nordlund, whose official title is vice ...

BEIRUT — General Atomics is in talks to sell Saudi Arabia up to 200 MQ-9 unmanned systems, according to a company spokesperson. The discussions are part of the $142 billion in defense deals ...

DSEI JAPAN — Japan is on track to take delivery of its fifth and sixth KC-46A Pegasus tankers later this year, a senior industry official here said, also revealing a tanker from the existing ...

BELFAST — German defense firm Rheinmetall and India’s Reliance Defence announced a “strategic partnership” on ammunition supplies today after officials from both companies signed a ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is laying the groundwork for a new partnership program in the Indo-Pacific region that will explore opportunities for joint production and sustaining of weapons ...

WASHINGTON — An Army two-star general has told staff that the service expects to halt work on its embattled Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program and pause a new howitzer competition, according ...

WASHINGTON — A program that embeds Defense Department employees at tech startups and venture capital firms may not be wholly dead just yet. At the Hill and Valley Forum happening today on ...