The secretary of defense made his pitch for a war-focused military, arguing "mounting urgency" required a cultural change against "ideological garbage." ...

"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 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.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Rey White launches an F-35B Lightning II from the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), Sept. 22, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Francisco J.

Maj. Gen. William J. Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, speaks with U.S. and Israeli participants in exercise Cyber Dome VII at the Georgia Cyber Center in Augusta, Ga., Dec. 8, ...

SMD 2025 — The Trump administration’s Golden Dome initiative to create an all-encompassing air and missile defense shield over the US will be the most ambitious Pentagon weapons program since Ronald ...

US Navy Virginia-class submarine, USS North Carolina, docks at the HMAS Stirling port in Rockingham on the outskirts of Perth on August 4, 2023. A US Navy Virginia-class submarine arrived at HMAS ...

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 ...

Adm Tony Radakin, UK Chief of the Defence Staff (left) attends a meeting of meeting of the Coalition of the Willing at NATO headquarters in Brussels (UK MoD) BELFAST — Drones alone will not be enough ...

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 ...

Building 1 at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. is the provisional headquarters of U.S. Space Command. (Space Command/Christopher DeWitt) WASHINGTON — The finalization of a review by the Pentagon’s ...

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 ...