The Army has cleared three companies to bid on the service’s plan to outsource initial helicopter pilot training, despite some lawmakers’ reservations about the idea.Bell, Lockheed Martin, and M1 Support Services have all publicly confirmed this week that they are moving to the third phase of the competition for Flight…

The Pentagon could further accelerate its technology purchasing if the services’ emerging-tech budget requests flowed through the office of the defense undersecretary for research, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report. The report urges lawmakers to give “budget certification authority” for the services’ research and engineering spending to the…

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The U.S. military’s largest shipbuilder reported increased production in 2025, but said submarine-building schedules could slip if the Navy doesn’t award new contracts by midyear. “One thing I know for sure, the Navy is going to buy submarines. So we need to get it done before the first half of the…

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Rockets and satellites draw the spotlight, sure, but could 2026 be the year the ground stations that command them get a bit more love from defense tech companies and investors?“We are very locked in on investing in the critical infrastructure that keeps U.S. space- and defense-missions resilient and operational as…

New START expires: The treaty limits on the world’s largest nuclear arsenals are gone. The 15-year-old New START treaty expired at midnight, the last vestige of an arms-control regime that reduced the combined nuclear stockpiles of Moscow and Washington from some 60,000 warheads to a few thousand.Fears of nuclear proliferation. The…

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