A senior Republican lawmaker defended the Golden Dome missile defense project as a necessary budgeting choice, saying leaders must rank competing priorities rather than assume the program will divert ...

The House voted 312-112 to pass the final version of the fiscal year 2026 defense authorization bill. The bill authorizes $900.6 billion for national defense, $8 billion more than what the White House ...

After a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, the bipartisan, bicameral SHIPS Act is no longer “ lost in committee ,” bill sponsor Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) confirmed today. “We had a committee hearing and ...

Recent requests for briefings and reports from House and Senate defense authorizers reflect a Congress still perturbed by a lack of detail surrounding swaths of change under the Army Transformation ...

The Dec. 9, 2025 Air Force memo "provides AF guidance for the acquisition of capabilities fulfilling Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUONs), Joint Emergent Operational Needs (JEONs) and Urgent ...

The compromise fiscal year 2026 version of the defense authorization bill would mandate the Pentagon set up a working group by Jan. 15 that would focus on issues related to the small unmanned aerial ...

The Navy plans to launch a new frigate program based on a U.S. design and have vessels in the water by 2028, according to Jason Potter, who is performing the duties of assistant service secretary for ...

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The conference package for the fiscal year 2026 defense policy bill calls on the Defense Innovation Unit to stand up a new program aimed at transitioning commercial technology into solutions the ...

The NATO Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) today named 150 companies across 24 countries to participate in a six-month program aimed at boosting the development of novel ...

Shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine has laid off 93 employees in the wake of the Navy's decision to truncate the Constellation-class frigate program, a company spokesperson confirmed to Inside ...

The Navy today announced the launch of a new software tool from Palantir Technologies intended to accelerate shipbuilding and repair, which will be rolled out at three of the four public shipyards, ...