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SAN DIEGO, California –“It's clear that we do need a larger navy,” Adm. Lisa Franchetti said on Tuesday, asked about the growing gap between the number of U.S. and Chinese warships. But numbers aren’t everything, the chief of naval…

While Europe is getting faster at making artillery shells, orders placed for Ukraine still take a year or more to reach the country, according to the Estonian defense ministry. “If we would go under contract today, then it’s…

In a notably bipartisan vote, the Senate passed a $95 billion supplemental aid bill for Ukraine and Israel at about 6:30 a.m. ET Tuesday morning. Seventy senators voted in support of what some have called an emergency defense spending bill;…

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d “encourage” Russia to attack NATO members that failed to “pay their bills”—at once a mischaracterization of how the alliance works and a startling nod to Moscow.Trump appeared to be alluding…

Russian forces appear to be using SpaceX’s Starlink communications service inside Ukraine, suggesting that a company celebrated for helping the defenders is now also aiding the invaders.Ukrainian troops first detected Russia’s frontline use…

Ukraine’s military has a new approach to 2024, and a new top officer. The dismissal of Gen. Valerii Zaluzhny was formally announced Thursday by President Volodymir Zelenskyy, nearly two weeks after news outlets first reported the imminent…

MITRE Chief Technology Officer Charles Clancy has led the not-for-profit government R&D giant’s technical and innovation strategy for the intelligence community since 2019, becoming an expert on multiple topics at the intersection of…

The U.S. military killed a top official from an Iran-backed militia Wednesday night in Baghdad, 10 days after a deadly drone attack near the Jordanian border killed three American soldiers and wounded more than 40 others. The U.S. initially…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency unveiled a webpage on Wednesday that provides election security resources to state and local governments, as well as election workers.The launch of the #Protect2024 site comes amid…

A court-authorized FBI operation that disrupted the China-linked Volt Typhoon hacking collective likely occurred between Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 of last year and immobilized a support network that the group heavily relied on to carry out its…