Northrop Grumman has quietly asked the Federal Trade Commission to remove restrictions on its solid rocket motor business, in a move that competitor Lockheed Martin opposes, setting up a rare regulatory battle between two of the world’s largest defense firms.
The Air Force is in the early stages of improving its command-and-control system for regional air, space, and cyber forces. The Next-Generation Air Operations Center Weapon System effort aims to upgrade the Air Operations Center Weapon System to bring AI-powered tools to planners and operators at combatant commands. Since February, the Air Force has released a request for information and two sets of Q&As.
The Pentagon plans to require service members to complete cybersecurity training once every three years, DefenseScoop has learned, a move that will scrap an annual mandate and is set to upend the Army’s recent shift to a five-year requirement.
Military processing stations are slimming down on the number of applicants they review with a prescreening process that flags any of 28 medical conditions that are generally considered disqualifying for service.
Northrop Grumman’s experimental XRQ-73 Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (SHEPARD) hybrid-electric drone has now taken to the skies. Newly released pictures show that the flying wing-type uncrewed aircraft’s design has also evolved since it first broke cover in 2024.
The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker May 6 as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war. ... A fighter jet shot out the rudder of the tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the American blockade of Iran’s ports, U.S. Central Command said in a social media post.
On March 5, as the U.S. and Israeli militaries hammered Iranian targets and Tehran launched attacks at Tel Aviv and Gulf countries that host American bases, an email blast emanated from a server located in China. “We are deeply shocked and outraged by the aggression against Iran, and our hearts are with you,” read the message from Xiamen Victory Technology. The company offered to sell German-designed engines used to power one-way attack drones.
Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery.
Maryland lawmakers are asking the Air Force to answer questions about a 32,000-gallon jet fuel spill on Joint Base Andrews that prompted an investigation and clean-up effort. State delegates wrote a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink, claiming there has been a lack of transparency surrounding the leak.
The crowd, the uniforms, and the celebration all pointed to one of the biggest milestones of Joel Usher’s life. But standing at his Air Force graduation, he quietly carried the weight of knowing no family or friends would be there to “tap him out” at the end of the ceremony. Then, in a moment that would later resonate with thousands on TikTok, one friend he met during training found him in the crowd and stepped in without hesitation.
