The Air Force has rolled out a new online system for Airmen living in government-owned housing to submit maintenance requests that should improve response times and make it easier to track progress.
The Pentagon is spending the winter evaluating options for expanding U.S. basing in Greenland, according to a senior defense official, with an eye toward breaking ground on new facilities next year.
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration, U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter said.
Current and former U.S. military leaders are bracing for the Trump administration to release its review of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan as soon as this month, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would revive public discourse of the 20-year war’s traumatic end days ahead of the midterm elections.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appointed Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Corps reservist Dakota Meyer to the Pentagon’s Barracks Task Force. Meyer will now serve as Hegseth’s senior advisor to the task force, which is tasked with addressing the military’s “unacceptable” living conditions, the defense secretary announced Oct. 19 in a video on social media.
As the U.S. Army’s support to the joint force space mission takes shape with its newly populated Space Operations Branch, the service is also poised to support what’s expected to be a critical year for testing and development of the Golden Dome for America missile shield project.
As Pentagon leaders remain relatively tightlipped about the extent of damage to U.S. bases in the Middle East, a senior U.S. defense official said the administration is weighing possible force posture changes against costs as it decides which installations to rebuild.
Northrop Grumman is bullish on expanding its microelectronics business to commercial customers, with the company undergoing a review of the business that could lead to a future spinoff or Pentagon investment, its chief executive said Oct. 20.
For the first time, an MQ-25A Stingray unmanned refueling aircraft was controlled through a Ground Control Station aboard the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), marking a major milestone for the program. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao made the announcement on Oct. 19, 2026, with the Navy stating that the drone took off from Boeing’s facility at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois, while the carrier was operating in the Pacific Ocean.
The skies above Ukraine now roar with the sound of F-16s targeting jet-powered drones. Under siege and short on interceptor missiles, Ukraine is using the American-made fighter planes as a first line of defense against Russia’s deadly new weapon of choice.
Chinese coast guard patrols to the east of Taiwan are "highly destabilizing" and an extension of Beijing's legal, political, and information warfare against Taipei, the chair of a review commission appointed by the U.S. Congress said Oct. 20.
China on Oct. 20 accused the U.S. military of “illegally” entering waters around a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, saying it had sent its own forces to watch a Navy ship.
Britain announced Oct. 20 that it is expanding military support for Saudi Arabia against the Houthis to include “defensive” air patrols by Royal Air Force jets, but stressed there is no military solution to the conflict.
The details behind the death of an Air Force special operations instructor killed during a rappelling demonstration Oct. 17 will likely not be known for weeks or even months. But rappelling demonstrations by military members at large public events, particularly involving highly trained special ops units, are not new.
