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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany–The members of the Ukraine-aid coordination group have agreed goals for production of arms and equipment for donation to the besieged country, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief said on Thursday. That will…

The dozens of nations sending military aid to Ukraine will attempt to map out a way to sustain the wartorn country’s defensive efforts through 2027, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday ahead of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s final…

The last several months have seen progress in the over-budget, years-delayed effort to overhaul the federal-employee background-check system, officials with the lead agency say. Workers in national…

Early last year, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that when he got back into the Oval Office, he’d authorize the U.S. Navy to build more ships. “It’s very important,” he said, “because it’s jobs, great jobs.”However, the companies…

How Trump may shake up DOD: an insider’s view An interview with Christopher Miller, the acting SecDef-turned-Project 2025 co-author.Patrick Tucker, Science & Technology EditorHow China is adopting battlefield lessons from Ukraine A…

Updated Dec. 21 at 12:30 a.m.In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Congress approved a stopgap spending bill to keep agencies afloat through March 14, allowing the federal government to remain open—even though lawmakers technically…

The U.S. military has some 2,000 troops in Syria—more than twice the figure of 900 that the Pentagon has cited for years, a spokesman said Thursday. The higher number includes “temporary rotational forces that deploy to meet shifting…

More than a dozen Army general officer positions will get the axe in the coming years, a spokesman for Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George tells Defense One.The revelation comes a week after Defense One published an opinion piece calling the…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is hoping to cure America’s maritime-industry woes with the introduction Thursday of an ambitious bill cheekily dubbed the SHIPS (Shipbuilding and Harbor Infrastructure for Prosperity and Security) for…

The U.S. and China are not having much-needed military discussions about risks in space, cyber, and nuclear defense—even as the relationship between the countries has thawed in the past year, a defense official said Wednesday. “The…