The Defense Department’s civilian workforce is reporting a precipitous drop in job satisfaction, according to a survey released Thursday, following a year of cuts and a hiring freeze that has left many offices understaffed and employees in fear of further reductions in force. Conducted by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public…

The Navy is betting $900 million that highly automated factories can help it add submarines in an era when skilled workers are scarce.The contract will support “non-recurring engineering across three facilities” to be built by  Hadrian, a four-year-old advanced manufacturing company.“This is not just another factory,” Navy Secretary John Phelan…

Pentagon officials report that the ground-launched Precision Strike Missile—PrSM for short—made a successful combat debut in the opening hours of the war on Iran. The new, now-proven ground-launched missile offers long-range strike capacity needed in the Middle East, to counter further Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, and to deter Chinese action…

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When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline to renegotiate its contract with the Pentagon to include “all lawful purposes” or be designated a supply chain risk — a classification typically reserved for adversarial foreign firms like Huawei — he framed it as a fight against “woke AI.” “Department…

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The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy is a major departure from decades of established defense policy, and may not be sustainable, according to experts who spoke to Defense One. While the strategy harkens back to what the Trump administration sees as a better time— immediately after World War II, “secure in…

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Details of a multi-day Air Force exercise in the Middle East are sparse as the U.S. military presence in the region grows and the White House warns Iran to stop its violent crackdown on anti-regime protestors.On Sunday, Ninth Air Force announced that an upcoming training exercise, dubbed Operation Agile Spartan,…

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