Iran and the U.S. have agreed on an interim peace deal, the two nations announced June 14, a potentially major breakthrough after nearly four months of fighting that created global political and economic turmoil.
If Congress does not pass $350 billion in funding through the reconciliation process, the Pentagon will consider cutting expensive traditional weapon systems in order to protect drones, the department’s top technologist warned June 12.
The Defense Department’s enterprise generative AI platform is now being used by 1.5 million personnel, according to Pentagon CTO Emil Michael. GenAI.mil was introduced in December to give DOD employees access to commercial AI tools and bring efficiencies to their workflows. Google’s Gemini products were the first to be made available in the new system, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok were also set to be integrated.
An effort to create a new cyber-focused military service under the Army narrowly failed in the Senate, but the lawmaker who proposed it isn’t backing down. Last month, Defense One exclusively reported that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was spearheading a markup amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would create a Cyber Force. The effort ultimately failed by a vote of 14-13, with four Democrats and 10 Republicans swatting the amendment down. Nine Democrats and four Republicans voted in favor.
The ties between the French Air Force and U.S. Air Force go back to the dawn of aviation. Brigadier General Pierre Gaudillière, Commander of the French Air Combat Command, joins us to explore how France views the current security environment through an airpower lens.
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are in a full court press to sell GOP lawmakers on a massive funding injection for the Pentagon’s budget.
President Donald Trump is considering taking the inaugural flight of the new Air Force One jet, gifted to him from Qatar, when he travels to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next month as part of celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary, according to a senior White House official and a source familiar with the plans.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has come out swinging at the Pentagon’s move to add a new slate of Chinese companies to its list of firms deemed to be military rather than civilian.
The Pentagon has agreed with three Government Accountability Office recommendations to help a civilian-led shop better oversee the acquisition of weapons for special operators, according to a new report.
President Donald Trump said June 12 that a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang.
Boeing has decided not to bid on the U.S. Navy’s next-generation trainer competition, a surprise move by the company that was seen as a favorite. The decision allows Boeing to focus more heavily on sixth-generation aircraft programs. With Lockheed Martin having also dropped out of the Undergraduate Jet Training System competition, the teams that remain are Sierra Nevada Co. with Northrop Grumman and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., and a team of Leonardo and Textron.
Nearly a dozen A-10C Thunderbolt II attack jets landed at RAF Lakenheath in the U.K. earlier on Friday, sporting mission marks from operations in the Middle East as well as their distinctive nose art. The photos were taken by aviation photographer Andrew McKelvey, who told us that 11 Warthogs landed at Lakenheath at about 3 p.m. local time.
