As part of a new initiative aimed at bolstering national security, JPMorganChase has pledged to invest $10 billion over the next decade in areas like defense and advanced manufacturing—and the financial giant isn’t just going to be looking at venture-backed startups as potential recipients for capital, executives told Breaking Defense.
The U.S. military is investing $400 million for “immediate work” on improving and renovating aging, faulty and dilapidated troop housing. That investment is part of a $1.2 billion funding plan to overhaul barracks across the services, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a video posted to social media.
This week will bring a split screen that will reinforce growing doubts in Europe about the American commitment to the alliance that has served as the bedrock of Western unity since the end of World War II.
The White House said Dec. 1 that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a September U.S. military operation that has come under bipartisan scrutiny.
In the austere desert or island outpost of the future, the U.S. Marine Corps wants its aircraft to land on a functioning airfield 90 minutes after the required equipment is flown in via an MV-22 Osprey or CH-53 King Stallion.
The Defense Department recently published a new document outlining how organizations should apply zero-trust cybersecurity principles for operational technology systems.
A group of U.S. Space Force trainees is the first basic military training class to sport the service’s new dress uniform and will wear it during their graduation ceremony next month.
Russia has fielded a new version of the Shahed-136 kamikaze drone armed with a single R-60 air-to-air missile. In principle, the heat-seeking R-60 would give the one-way attacker a way to engage Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and creates a deterrent threat, but the effectiveness of this combination is unclear.
Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail is caught in a political tug-of-war. ... It is already operating with the U.K., Australia, Korea and Turkey, and was set to replace the U.S. Air Force’s aging E-3 Sentry, another Boeing-built product. But in June, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled the contract for up to 26 Wedgetails, citing program delays and cost overruns. That prompted another cancellation by the U.S.’s European allies this month, leaving the program with few future customers. Then came Congress.
Varda Space Industries said Nov. 28 that its fifth mission, W-5, reached orbit after a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 rideshare. Transporter-15 lifted off at 1:44 p.m. Eastern carrying 140 small satellites. W-5 was among them, becoming the latest in Varda’s effort to build “space factories” that use microgravity to manufacture materials in orbit then bring them back to Earth.
The Commemorative Air Force launched 12 Planes of Christmas, its annual winter fundraising initiative dedicated to preserving and restoring America’s historic military aircraft. The campaign highlights twelve CAF aircraft currently in need of restoration, maintenance, or repair—each representing a unique chapter of aviation history.
