The Pentagon will nearly double its innovation arm, expand the industrial base for cheap maritime and aerial drones, and develop new ways to ensure supplies of critical minerals, according to an unclassified spending strategy for the $151 billion in funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.That money is $8.3…
AURORA, Colorado—Anduril’s drone wingman started armed flight testing this month, marking the next major milestone for the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft program. The Air Force began captive carry evaluations in February, strapping inert munitions to Anduril’s prototype drone wingman. The weapons have not yet been fired, the service said in…
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AURORA, Colorado—Air Force officials and Northrop Grumman have reached a deal to accelerate B-21 bomber production by 25 percent following months of negotiations, the service and company announced Monday.Tucked into the $151 billion reconciliation legislation last summer was $4.5 billion to increase the number of next-generation bombers. While those funds…
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Apple PodcastsGuests: Peter W. Singer, strategist at New America and the author of multiple books on technology and security, including Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, Burn-In, and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media; And August Cole, non-resident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council,…
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I stopped when I noticed two does feeding about 300 yards off, and whispered to my wife that I was going to practice aiming. Moments later, a few more deer showed up. As I watched them through the scope, a big buck appeared, and my heart raced full-throttle.The buck nosed…
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The Mexican army killed a key cartel leader Sunday, triggering 27 retaliatory attacks across the country that left nearly three dozen cartel members and two dozen Mexican National Guard soldiers dead, Mexico Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla told reporters in a press conference Monday. Deceased: Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, 60, aka “El…
AURORA, Colorado—Test engines meant to keep the B-52 Stratofortress in the skies through the bomber’s 100th birthday are expected to be delivered in 2027 after recent key performance evaluations, Rolls Royce confirmed to Defense One.The upgraded F130 engines completed altitude and operability testing earlier this month at the Air Force’s…
Dozens of military lawyers have been temporarily assigned as federal prosecutors to support law-enforcement surges in Minneapolis and other cities, a novel arrangement that is stretching an overworked judge advocate general corps and drawing concern from legal experts.This month alone, the Justice Department requested about 40 lawyers, a U.S. official…
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The soft-pedal rollout of the National Defense Strategy—a Friday-night email to press as the Washington, D.C., area braced for a crippling snowstorm—has experts wondering whether there’s an implementation plan to go with it.“My real cynical take is the strategy isn’t worth the paper it’s written on because the president’s going…
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SHOT Show is where the industry shows its cards—and January 2026 didn’t disappoint. Our team at AmmoSquared spent the week on the floor capturing the kind of details you don’t always see in press releases or product spec sheets: interesting builds, smart design choices, emerging trends, and the small moments…
President Trump’s National Guard deployments across the country have already cost $589 million, and could rise to more than $1 billion by the end of the year if staffing trends and mission scope do not change, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. Current deployments are costing about…
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