The Pentagon’s top policy official told a small group of allies Tuesday night that the U.S. plans to play a minimal role in any Ukraine security guarantees, one of the clearest signs yet that Europe will need to shoulder the burden of keeping lasting peace in Kyiv.
On a map, the gains hardly seem noticeable, measured in hundreds of yards, not hundreds of miles. But as President Trump presses Ukraine and Russia to make a deal to end their war, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is pushing to capture as much land as possible along a frontline that stretches about 750 miles, almost the distance from Chicago to New York.
Personnel cuts are crippling progress on Advana, a Pentagon data platform that has been widely used in recent years to accelerate functions from logistics to finance to readiness—and which is key to the department’s AI plans, current and former defense and military officials say.
The Pentagon’s advanced research hub says it has built the world’s largest, most realistic electronic warfare test capability and plans to install it at a Navy lab later this year.
The powerful “Rapper Bot” Distributed Denial of Service-for-hire botnet impacted the Department of Defense Information Network in at least three attacks between April and August—when U.S. government authorities gained control of the disruptive malware web, two officials told DefenseScoop.
A U.S. Navy sailor in California has been convicted of espionage for selling the force's secrets to a Chinese agent who recruited him through social media. Jinchao Wei, 25, was convicted of six charges, including espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage, and unlawful export of classified data about U.S. Navy ships.
Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach has emerged as a serious contender to be the next Air Force chief of staff, sources told Breaking Defense. Following Gen. David Allvin’s surprise announcement on Aug. 18 that he plans to retire in November, three people familiar with the discussions pointed to Wilsbach as high on the prospective list to succeed Allvin, with two of those sources indicating the former Air Combat Command head should be viewed as the front runner.
An Airman stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, who died after being shot by an AK-47 fired through the wall of an off-base apartment in Wyoming, has been identified by service officials. Senior Airman Joshua Aragon, a specialist assigned to the 790th Missile Security Forces Squadron at the base's 90th Missile Wing, died early Aug. 16, a statement released late Aug. 19 detailed.
Israel’s Defense Ministry says it will procure two more KC-46 refueling planes from American aircraft manufacturer Boeing, in addition to four that are currently on order.
The Air Force is on a quest for some drone clones, with a recent solicitation asking industry to replicate an Iranian aircraft that has wreaked havoc in the Russia-Ukraine war and elsewhere.
The U.S. Air Force Reserve has released new video from a Hurricane Hunter aircraft as it flew through the eye of Hurricane Erin Aug. 16. “Last night, we flew into the eye of Hurricane Erin—and captured the breathtaking stadium effect,“ the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron said on Facebook.
