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The D Brief: Cuts to DOT&E; Uncrewed F-35?; Qatari jet’s a mess; Border gets barracks funding;…
Hegseth halves Pentagon testing office. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo directing cuts to the office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. The DOT&E workforce will shrink from 94 employees to 30…
Hegseth halves staff of Pentagon’s testing-oversight office
The Pentagon office that oversees weapons testing will shrink by nearly half, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered on Wednesday, which will leave individual service branches to conduct testing with a smaller Defense Department…
Lockheed pitches pilot-optional F-35
Lockheed Martin plans to develop a version of the F-35 that can fly without a pilot, according to the company’s CEO—one of many upgrades the company is pitching for the program after it lost the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance…
What’s missing from Trump’s nuclear diplomacy
Something is missing from President Trump’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran: a credible military threat. Without it, these talks, which will soon enter their sixth round, have little chance of achieving their stated goal of ensuring Iran can…
The D Brief: RIP, 5-things email; German-Ukrainian missile plan; Russia’s latest demands; P&W…
RIP, “5 things” email across DOD. After this week, Defense Department civilians will no longer have to submit an email list of five things they accomplished over the previous week, according to a Friday email that ends a requirement the…
Don’t limit defense innovation by capping small-biz awards
One of the federal government’s most effective tools for solving the toughest technological challenges is at risk of being sabotaged by Congress. I spent nearly four decades in the Navy, first as a helicopter pilot, and then 23 years…
Missile Defense Agency preps $151B contract vehicle for Golden Dome
The Missile Defense Agency will kick off the acquisition of the Golden Dome missile shield with a 10-year, $151 billion multiple-award contract, according to agency documents posted last week.By Friday, the agency expects to…
Pentagon orders civilian employees to submit money-saving ideas
After this week, Defense Department civilians will no longer have to submit an email list of five things they accomplished over the previous week, according to a Friday email from the Pentagon’s acting personnel chief, ending a requirement…
The D Brief: Russia pounds Ukraine; Germany sends troops abroad; Pentagon’s retention pricetag;…
After three nights of “record-breaking” Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine, Poland’s military chief is visiting the Pentagon. Minister of Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and his team dropped by shortly before 10 a.m. ET for…
‘Silk Typhoon’ hackers breached US corporate-cloud provider, person familiar says
A data-management-software firm whose clients include global corporate heavyweights was compromised by Chinese hackers that accessed the firm’s enterprise cloud systems and targeted its customers’ application secrets, according to a…
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