The Trump administration is pursuing funding deals with a group of drone companies as part of its effort to increase domestic production and lower the costs of the increasingly vital weapons, people familiar with the matter said.
Canada will buy early warning radar planes built by Sweden’s Saab and Canada’s Bombardier over two American options, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced March 27.
“The U.S. military’s senior echelons think constantly about a no-longer-unthinkable subject: being prepared to deter, or win, a protracted, high-intensity war against a near-peer adversary, China. Generals are often disparaged for preparing to fight the last war. Today’s danger, however, is that we will overlearn dubious lessons from Ukraine concerning the role of small, inexpensive, unmanned weapon systems,” writes columnist George F. Will.
The United States will need at least three years to restore an array of critical weapons systems to prewar levels following its 38-day bombing campaign against Iran, according to the Center for Strategic International Studies.
The Pentagon awarded Dell Federal Systems a $9.7 billion Core Enterprise Technology Agreement (CETA) to consolidate Microsoft software, services, and licenses across the Department of Defense, top officials told reporters.
U.S. Special Operations Command’s Joint Acquisition Task Force and the SOFWERX innovation hub are looking to partner with industry to develop a proving ground for autonomous systems.
An initial draft of the annual defense policy bill shows the House is still banking on billions of yet-to-be-approved funds for the Trump administration’s top military priorities.
With the pan-European Future Combat Air System, which is supposed to include a crewed New Generation Fighter aircraft, mired in difficulty, Airbus has raised the possibility of teaming with Saab on the manned tactical component of it—the fighter.
After years apart, a U.S. Air Force reservist has finally been reunited with the military working dog he never stopped hoping to adopt some day. Senior Airman Alex Jones reunited with Max, a retired Military Working Dog he first met while stationed in Korea in 2020, during a special ceremony hosted by the nonprofit Paws of War on May 22, in Sneads Ferry, N.C.
