"You can be assured we will do what is necessary to defend our cities, our people, our infrastructure, but it doesn't mean that we will always immediately shoot down a plane," said Rutte, appearing at ...

The continuing resolution does not include $3.9 billion requested by the White House for the Columbia-class submarine, but gives funding flexibility to other key programs.

The bill also directs the Director of National Intelligence to appoint a single official to oversee the acquisition of commercially available information by all IC agencies.

The former USS Enterprise (CVN-65) sits in port at Newport News Shipbuilding awaiting final inactivation. (Justin Katz/Breaking Defense) WASHINGTON — The Navy awarded a $536 million contract to ...

GEOINT 2025 — As the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) rolls out its AI-powered imagery analysis software system Maven to more and more users, it also is seeing a sizable reduction in ...

A full-sized model of General Atomics's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (top) and Anduril's (bottom) on display at AFA 2024 on Sept. 20, 2024. (Breaking Defense photos) AFA 2025 — The Air Force has ...

As the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference comes to a close, Breaking Defense’s Lee Ferran and Michael Marrow dive into new details about Israel’s strike targeting Hamas ...

Shown is a graphical artist rendering of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform, dubbed the F-47. (U.S. Air Force graphic) AFA 2025 — The Air Force is “beginning to manufacture the first ...

An E-6B Mercury assigned to the Strategic Communications Wing 1 at Tinker Air Force Base approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing during an aerial refueling mission ...

Through the lens of new weapons development, Raytheon Advanced Technology employs composability as a catalyst for speed for weapon systems like hypersonic missiles. (Raytheon photo). Delivering new ...

U.S. Air Force Major Erin Rundberget, team chief of targeting and effects from the 612th Air Operations Center, relay directions in support of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Onramp 2, ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s complex, and somewhat challenged, program to develop a new ground system for its next generation of missile warning satellites is inching forward, with four firms set to ...