The Trump administration plans to propose a $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal 2027, broken into a $1.15 trillion base budget request and an additional $350 billion from a forthcoming reconciliation bill, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget.
The Pentagon is running out of strategically important targets to hit in Iran, even as President Donald Trump insists the U.S. will keep pummeling Tehran for up to three weeks.
Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by U.S. and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent U.S. intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.
President Trump celebrated a strike on a highway bridge near Tehran on Thursday, warning on social media that there was “much more to follow.” ... A U.S. military official said that American forces had struck the bridge twice, eliminating what the official called a planned military supply route for Iran’s missile and drone forces. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to share operational details.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News.
On this day one year ago, President Donald Trump declared that a “chronic trade deficit” had become a national emergency, resulting in the need for the United States to impose retaliatory tariffs on American allies and foes alike to “make America wealthy again.” ... But, according to two experts and a former defense official, the defense industry has largely ridden out the worst of the storm, thanks to a series of national security exemptions. Where the impacts have been most felt, they say, is on the man hours and administrative burden of applying to obtain those exemptions, which often have to be done on a case-by-case basis.
A bipartisan group of senators on April 2 reaffirmed America’s commitment to NATO, just a day after President Donald Trump threatened to abandon the transatlantic alliance amid a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
Italy, Japan and the U.K. have signed a stopgap contract to keep work going on their joint GCAP fighter program for three months, giving the U.K. time to free up more funding.
he Pentagon has placed increasing emphasis on adopting commercial tech to accelerate the pace at which the U.S. military can put the latest and greatest tools in the hands of warfighters. But that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit for every use case, a panel of Defense Department leaders said.
The U.S. military declared space superiority over Iran this week, but defense experts question what that means given the country’s inchoate military space program and heavy reliance on space-based intelligence from other nations.
Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled. A cat meme helped him crack the case.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced April 2 that he was lifting a ban on service members’ ability to carry personal firearms on U.S. military bases. “Our warfighters defend the rights to carry. They should be able to carry themselves,” Hegseth said in a video posted on social platform X.
Aphotographer on a flight over Greenville, Texas, captured an especially good look at one of the U.S. Air Force’s RC-135V/W Rivet Joint aircraft with its usual paint scheme completely stripped off. Instead, much of its skin is seen covered with a green-colored protective coating.
