China’s military leadership stood before the nation in March 2023, an image of unity behind Xi Jinping. After nearly a decade in power, Mr. Xi had installed the high command that he wanted: loyalists hand-picked to make the People’s Liberation Army a world-class force. But not even Mr. Xi’s loyalists have been spared from his sweeping campaign to clean up the military—with purges that are ostensibly focused on corruption but are also about fealty to him. One by one, members of the Central Military Commission have been dismissed and put under investigation.
Russia carried out a major overnight attack on Ukraine in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Feb. 3 was a broken commitment to halt striking energy infrastructure as the countries prepared for more talks on ending Moscow’s 4-year-old full-scale invasion.
Lockheed Martin has completely cleared the backlog of F-35s that had been parked at its facility in Fort Worth, Texas, following a yearlong freeze of deliveries put in place by the F-35 Joint Program Office
The Pentagon on Feb. 3 announced 25 small technology and drone companies that will compete for a chance to quickly field thousands of low-cost one-way attack drones for the military.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket over an unspecified issue that its second stage experienced after successfully deploying Starlink satellites into orbit on Feb. 2, the company said.
The Department of the Air Force has formally adopted the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil as the enterprise generative artificial intelligence platform for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force.
Up-and-coming software company Picogrid has won a $9.3 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract, the small firm’s largest to date, to connect disparate counter-drone systems and other defenses at selected Air Force bases using “translator” software written by AI.
The Pentagon's new Science, Technology, and Innovation Board—a merger of the decade-old Defense Innovation Board and the 70-year-old Defense Science Board—is meant to “streamline” the department's approach to the hardest technological and scientific national-security challenges.
The Pentagon recently tapped California-based tech company LILT to supply artificial intelligence-powered translation options to military forces worldwide.
Boeing sees opportunities growing for its T-7A Red Hawk trainer internationally, but first things first: meeting the U.S. Air Force’s timeline that has continued to slip.
Four days after a KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tanker made an aborted takeoff at Moron Air Base in southern Spain, the runway at the installation remain closed and will be for several more days, according to a Federal Aviation Administration Notice to Airman.
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David Wolfe wears a physical reminder of why he chose to make the service his career. Fastened inside his service coat is an Air Force pin that belonged to his father, who served as a combat photographer during World War II and later joined the Air Force when it became an independent military branch.
