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The D Brief: More loose lips; Troops get detention powers; State’s coming cuts; Primes’ aircraft…
Forensics of a scandal: Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly moved information from a general shared on a classified channel and to at least two separate, unsecured chat threads on the messaging app Signal, Courtney Kube and Gordon Lubold…
Nano-material breakthrough could revolutionize night vision
A new way to make large ultrathin infrared sensors that don’t need cryogenic cooling could radically change night vision for the military or even autonomous vehicles. Night vision (thermal) is clunky, power-intensive, and requires…
Europe is realigning—but can leaders keep citizens on board?
This commentary is published in coordination with the 2025 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.Last month’s Signal chat scandal was the latest of several moves by the three-month-old Trump administration that…
Agentic Warfare Is Here. Will America Be the First Mover?
It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operations Center. Screens pulse in gentle waves each a second long, reflecting streams of updated data. Unseen beneath layers of code, an advanced military logistics AI…
After NGAD loss, Lockheed says it will ‘supercharge’ F-35
In the wake of its loss in the Next Generation Air Dominance competition, Lockheed Martin plans to take the technology from its bid and funnel it into its F-35 program to pitch a lower-cost alternative to the future F-47.“The knowledge and…
Northrop takes $477M loss on B-21 to speed up production, cover materials costs
Northrop Grumman is taking a $477 million hit on its B-21 Raider program to fund changes that will allow it to build the new stealth bomber faster than the Pentagon has so far requested.The pre-tax charge, tied to the first five low-rate…
In Brief: How to Improve the Foreign Military Sales Process
In an April 9 executive order, the president directed his administration to “improve speed and accountability in the defense sales system.” The order aims to ensure that the United States has a “rapid and transparent foreign defense sales…
Read the State Department’s new org chart
The State Department has moved its Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to the agency’s Economic Growth office, according to an org chart released as part of a reorganization announced Tuesday.The…
State to slash 15% of domestic staff, eliminate 132 offices
Updated: 3:52 p.m. ET.The State Department will eliminate 15 percent of its domestic staff as part of a reorganization that will close one-sixth of its 734 offices and bureaus, officials said Tuesday.Of the remaining 602…
The D Brief: More DOD turmoil; US warns on Chinese sats; Nordics’ emerging power; Army’s new radar;…
President Trump’s White House is asking around for someone who could replace Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, NPR’s Tom Bowman reported Monday, citing a U.S. official. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt disagreed, and called…
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