Created by President Donald J. Trump with an executive order on Aug. 3, 2026, the commission will advise the President on quality-of-life issues and recommend solutions to common challenges faced by spouses and families.
The new contracts build off the $4.16 billion award given to SpaceX in May, which tasked the company to develop an initial satellite constellation for the SB-AMTI program.
The President’s Marine One helicopter took off from the White House Tuesday afternoon, but air-traffic controllers hadn’t halted commercial flights at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
More than 90 teams will attempt to prove that drones can do something many in aviation once considered impossible: carry loads four times their own weight over miles of flight.
The Pentagon’s counterdrone task force awarded Kaizen Laboratories $15 million to build a “two-way” marketplace designed, in part, to make selling tech to foreign militaries easier.
Defense primes have been attempting to soothe Wall Street’s anxieties surrounding the Pentagon’s uncertain outlook for a $1.5 trillion budget in fiscal 2027, with executives pointing to sustained weapons demand as proof that a meaty defense budget will ultimately materialize.
The U.S. Army has used up much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts.
The U.S. Air Force has a trio of priorities for its expected increase in funding in fiscal year 2027, covering defense industrial base, modernization and aircraft readiness initiatives, according to its No. 2 officer.
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Capella Space, Iceye U.S. and Umbra to expand the U.S. government’s use of commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
The Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial will be dedicated on Oct. 24, honoring the 700,000 Americans who fought in the 1990-91 Gulf War, the coalition campaign that drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. For the veterans of that war, many now in their 50s and 60s, it is the first national recognition of its kind, and it was a long time coming.
