Defense One

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—"Hold right, clear left.”Four Marines in helmets and flak jackets are stacked outside a rusty metal building covered in faux brick and wood. The first enters the doorway with his rifle at the ready, followed by the…

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—The USS Daniel Inouye’s maiden deployment was supposed to be seven months long, and include mostly “encouraging stability” by working with regional partners like Japan and Korea as part of the Theodore Roosevelt strike…

Israel and Iran are at war. In truth, the two sides have been fighting for decades, but the conflict has played out largely under the cover of covert and clandestine operations.The recent actions of both sides in this once…

Hurricane Helene’s death toll across the southern U.S. has now risen to 215, making it the deadliest storm to hit the mainland since Hurricane Katrina almost 20 years ago. (Hurricane Maria remains the deadliest, with nearly 3,000 who…

Until recent decades, the National Reconnaissance Office wouldn’t acknowledge even one satellite it had in space. Now, the intelligence agency is speaking publicly about launching dozens in the past year and a half. “From last…

Two U.S. senators are working across the aisle to get answers from the Pentagon about its efforts to advance quantum sensing—whose promises include jam-resistant position-navigation-timing systems—and whether the U.S. military can keep pace…

Microsoft’s digital crimes team and the Justice Department seized some 100 website domains belonging to a Russia-backed hacking gang that’s built a reputation targeting civil society organizations around the world.A civil action unsealed…

New: Russian hackers have turned their sights on Taiwan, Dmitri Alperovitch noted Thursday on social media. Targets include Taiwanese companies and government agencies. Why now? Possibly because just last month, Taiwan’s new president…

An upcoming test-firing of a small cruise missile is a step toward filling a rising need for U.S. special operators—and perhaps allies around the globe.Sometime this fall, Leidos aims to launch its under-development Black Arrow missile from…

The Air Force picked longtime defense IT contractor Leidos to develop and manage the guts of the service’s next-gen command, control, and communications network Defense One has learned. The $303 million contract covers “planning,…