U.S. service members will receive a 3.8% pay increase beginning Jan. 1 under the final version of the annual defense bill announced by the House and Senate on Dec. 7.
Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.
Nearly a year after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth purged the top judge advocates general of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, lawmakers are poised to require an explanation if it happens again.
The Trump administration is gearing up to launch an ambitious new plan to spur the military’s near-term adoption of artificial intelligence assets by supplying commercial options directly to users on the ground across three categories that reflect real-world operational needs, according to the Pentagon’s chief technology officer.
In keeping with tradition, lawmakers’ compromise fiscal 2026 defense policy bill released late Dec. 7 tweaks several key Pentagon programs, with provisions aimed at aerospace like Air Force tankers and Army helicopters.
Congress is looking to press the U.S. Air Force to provide details of its place to maintain the Airborne Command Post capability—better known as Looking Glass—including the possibility of hosting it on a platform based on the Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 cargo plane.
The Pentagon's weapon buyer says there is a commitment to deliver a new fighter for the U.S. Navy, even as the source selection process for the F/A-XX remains stalled and the department continues to evaluate the industrial base capacity to build two new fighters—a concern both the contract competitors and the U.S. Congress have adamantly rejected.
Chinese warplanes locked radar on Japanese military aircraft in the seas near the Japanese island of Okinawa on Dec. 6, in two separate incidents that Tokyo said were dangerous acts.
Thai F-16 fighter jets bombed Cambodian targets on Dec. 8, as a decades-old border dispute that President Trump claimed to have ended erupted in a new salvo of fighting that killed at least five people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
More than 70 years after he took part in the longest dogfight in Navy history, scoring four aerial victories, Royce Williams might finally get the Medal of Honor.
