Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he had begun to shutter a Pentagon program meant to advance women’s participation in peace-building and conflict prevention, which was created by a law written by GOP lawmakers and signed by President Trump during his first term.
The Pentagon is preparing to deploy counter-drone capabilities around the U.S.-Mexico border as part of its ongoing support of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and security mandates there, two senior defense officials told lawmakers April 29.
Global military spending surged to an unprecedented $2.72 trillion in 2024, jumping 9.4 percent from the previous year and marking the steepest annual increase since the end of the Cold War. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported the stark increase in its highly anticipated annual report, which was released on April 28.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is backing a Navy admiral as his preferred choice for a key role commanding U.S. military operations in the Middle East, passing over an Army general who had been widely presumed to be the top contender amid an ongoing naval war in the region, according to defense officials and others familiar with the issue.
A launch anomaly on board Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket resulted in the loss of a Lockheed Martin spacecraft designed to demonstrate new satellite technologies. The mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., on April 29, went south sometime after the rocket’s first stage separated and before the ignition of Alpha’s second stage.
The final round of a cybersecurity competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will take inspiration in part from a Chinese hacking campaign discovered last year that was found to have burrowed into major U.S. telecommunications systems and their wiretapping platforms.
The House Armed Services Committee voted through a $150 billion boost to defense funding April 29, after Republicans shot down almost two dozen Democratic amendments that were largely a referendum of the Signalgate scandal and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership of the Pentagon.
In a significant departure from traditional defense procurement practices, the U.S. Space Force is moving to replace its specialized military satellites used for geostationary surveillance with systems built and operated by commercial vendors, a shift aimed at expanding supplier diversity and tapping into the private sector’s capabilities.
The U.S. Marine Corps has taken delivery of the Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm, or ExDECS, weapon, its maker Epirus announced April 29 to coincide with the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington, D.C. ExDECS will allow the Corps to start experiments with high-power microwave (HPM) technology in the increasingly critical low-altitude air defense (LAAD) role.
The Trump administration is looking to build an immigration detention facility at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., and pushing to speed up a review process, according to internal government communications obtained by KQED.
Aurora Flight Sciences has provided new details about the demonstrator design it is working on for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Liberty Lifter X-plane program. Liberty Lifter’s core goal is to prove out a new ekranoplan flying transport design that employs the wing-in-ground (WIG) effect principle.
