Defense One

Northrop Grumman anticipates getting a second contract to continue producing the Pentagon’s new B-21 Raider by the end of the year, executives announced today. “With B-21, we are on track for meeting the milestones associated with an…

After nearly two weeks of warnings from Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence officials, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Wednesday “there is evidence that there are troops in Russia.” Ukraine’s president claimed last…

U.S., Australian, British, and Japanese defense officials converged on Australia’s Jervis Bay this week for a weeklong experiment to test how to integrate new, developmental tech from different countries in order to speed up intelligence…

President Joe Biden will issue a new national security memorandum today on artificial intelligence, aimed at helping the U.S. government deploy AI and retain its advantage over China.The United States must “ensure that our national security…

As a coda to two decades covering the post-9/11 conflicts as a correspondent, I wrote a book in 2021 profiling the 25 Medal of Honor recipients from the nation’s longest wars. Theirs are stories of never surrendering despite harrowing odds,…

HONOLULU—The war in Ukraine shows how the United States must improve its acquisition process if it hopes to maintain military strength, the deputy commander of Pacific Fleet said Tuesday.Ukraine “provides us a great example of the…

Boeing won’t be able to fix its ailing defense arm, which lost $2 billion this quarter, anytime soon, but the company’s CEO said Wednesday that its defense products are still core to the company. “It's going to take a lot of work.…

In a future war, Army tanks growling around the battlefield may be able to send live data back to their headquarters showing every time they fire a round or burn a gallon of fuel.Using that data, logisticians back at the base might then…

He died building a ship for the U.S. government. His family got nothing. ProPublica reports on the death of a shipbuilder at Thoma-Sea, among Louisiana’s largest shipyards. Elmer De León Pérez died last January as he welded inside a ballast…

Immigrants to the U.S. are more willing to “fight for the country” than the native-born, according to a multinational study that may have resonance amid military recruitment struggles and an election charged with rhetoric and…