Lockheed Martin needs to make progress on a host of delayed upgrades to the F-35 fighter jet before the Pentagon will return to buying the jet in planned levels, the Air Force’s chief said.
“The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence,” begins the introduction to America’s AI Action Plan, released July 23 by the White House. The prime adversary in that race, other passages make clear, is China. ... While most of the specific items in the Action Plan relate to domestic R&D, the economy, or international trade, it also includes a long to-do list for the Department of Defense.
Turkey and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding on the export of Eurofighter Typhoon jets on July 23, bringing the government in Ankara a step closer to buying the multi-role fighter aircraft built by a consortium of four European countries.
Pentagon leadership recently paused the Chief Digital and AI Office’s program to re-compete a high-dollar contract for its widely used enterprise data and analytics platform, Advana, according to a special notice that terminates an associated market research effort.
Defense startup Epirus has secured a new Army contract to deliver a pair of high-powered microwave systems that can make a swarm of drones fall from the sky, following years of prototypes and recent tests in the Indo-Pacific.
The evasive action an airline pilot took to avoid a B-52 bomber in the skies over North Dakota has focused attention on the way small airport towers are often run by private companies without their own radars.
A high-security vault concealed inside a standard 20-foot shipping container is in development to give U.S. military commanders a new way to safely store nuclear weapons and other extremely sensitive assets, even at far-flung locations.
The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen were derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said.
New research has linked exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and Type 2 diabetes—a finding that could have implications for military personnel and families who work around or live on installations contaminated by the chemicals.
An Ohio high school will become the first high school in the United States to receive a retired Air Force Thunderbird Jet, and it’s also the first time the U.S. Air Force has ever provided an authentic aircraft to be permanently displayed outside a school.
