After years of struggles on the T-7 Red Hawk program, Air Force officials in January 2025 decided to take a different direction, implementing a new strategy called “active management” that offered prime contractor Boeing a series of financial incentives in exchange for meeting certain goals. A year later, the Air Force and Boeing are discussing a new expansion, one that the service has internally assessed could cost taxpayers over a billion dollars, according to previously unreported Air Force documents viewed by Breaking Defense.
The Pentagon opted to purchase Casepoint’s AI-enabled software products for classified legal operations and secure data workflows via a new blanket purchase agreement worth up to $98.8 million, officials from the company announced June 24.
A conservative congressman has included a provision in the U.S. House version of the National Defense Authorization Act that calls on all services to expand waivers for military enlistees who test positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive component found in cannabis.
The United States, Britain, France, and Germany raised the alarm on June 24 over recent Chinese activities off the east coast of Taiwan, where China has mounted Coast Guard patrols, saying they threaten regional stability and freedom of navigation.
The Pentagon is in a race to get $152 billion in 2025 reconciliation spending under contract by the end of September or lose a chunk of the cash. The Pentagon has already issued guidance to its program offices on how to spend the money before the deadline hits at the end of the fiscal year, a senior department official told Breaking Defense this week.
The U.S. Navy continues to make use of MQ-1 Predators as test and training assets, eight years after the U.S. Air Force retired the iconic drones.
Lockheed Martin plans to flight test an in-development, extreme-range cruise missile with the U.S. Air Force by the end of the year. Lockheed first teased the AGM-158 XR in late 2024. The world's largest defense contractor by revenue now says it's part of a bigger push into customizability.
General Atomics is working to enable older MQ-9 ground stations to control the latest version of the drone, allowing longtime operators moving to newer models to buy the upgrade package instead of a whole new terminal.
Lockheed Martin nabbed a $35.35 billion contract from the U.S. government to quadruple production of its high-end THAAD missile-defense systems.
Lockheed Martin has delivered six F-35Bs to the U.S. Marine Corps without radars due to ongoing delays with a powerful new upgrade, the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office told lawmakers on June 23.
The Trump administration is struggling to convince GOP lawmakers to back President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget in addition to tens of billions of dollars to fund the Iran war.
Before Jimmy Stewart became George Bailey, he kept a wartime flight log. “He hated it when planes didn’t come back, when he lost men,” his daughter Kelly Stewart-Harcourt told Military.com in an exclusive interview.
