Virtually all of the giant reconciliation fund has been doled out, the Pentagon’s acting chief financial officer said Tuesday. “Everything except for $1.3 billion in the $153 billion that’s been given to the Department of Defense by the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act has been apportioned and [has] been released to…
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Questions about following illegal orders—a frequent theme of the second Trump administration—came up again at a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday. Just days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the U.S. war on Iran would feature “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies”—on its face, a violation of international law—the…
Golden Dome’s official projected price tag just jumped $10 billion to $185 billion. Experts say the real cost is likely to be far, far more.Gen. Michael Guetlein, the Space Force officer in charge of the sprawling missile defense project, said Tuesday that it was no longer expected to cost $175…
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I became a shad addict on a quiet backwater creek in eastern North Carolina, just trying to find a way to kill time outdoors until turkey season kicked off. I was pitching a small red spoon from the bank when a hickory shad snatched it and launched itself from the…
U.S. forces destroyed Iran’s military space command, Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, announced Thursday, saying the move degraded the regime’s ability to coordinate retaliatory strikes. But experts told Defense One that the country’s nascent space capabilities never posed a significant threat. “We’ve also struck Iran’s equivalent of Space…
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency privately told stakeholders he left his role in the U.S. Coast Guard to address concerns about his ties to shipbuilding work that led a Republican lawmaker to place a hold on his nomination late last year.Sean Plankey told…
With a timeline for the U.S.’s war with Iran very much up in the air, a task force assigned to improving the U.S.’s ability to down small drones both at home and abroad is eagerly awaiting lessons from the conflict—while moving as quickly as possible to make sure bases around…
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Baiting is one of the biggest hot-button issues in hunting. Regardless of species, everyone has an opinion. This is especially true for deer hunting, where antler inches can make toddlers out of grown men. Opponents of baiting often raise ethical or moral questions about the tactic itself and the risk…
The U.S.’s war with Iran is about to go up a notch, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday during a press briefing at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., as the bombing campaign’s sixth day came to a close.Hegseth batted away concerns about U.S. munitions stockpiles, seeming to suggest…
The inaugural deployment of the LUCAS drone, a near-clone of the Iranian Shahed-136, signals a big Pentagon step into the era of affordable mass.For years, Western military doctrine relied on the assumption that superior technology could defeat superior numbers. But the opening salvos of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran have…
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The Department of Defense has a new acting leader for its cybersecurity enterprise, with the agency tapping former Air Force Chief Information Security Officer James “Aaron” Bishop to serve as the department-wide CISO and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity. The move was announced Feb. 27, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to…
Decades-old B-1 and B-52 bombers have hit hundreds of Iranian military targets this week, and experts say it underscores the need to retire the former and modernize the latter for future conflicts against Russia and China.The two venerable aircraft are the latest additions to the list of platforms used in…
Kristi Noem will step down as secretary of the Homeland Security Department at the end of the month, President Trump announced on Thursday, amid a tumultuous period for the agency that has overseen the administration’s controversial immigration crackdown. Trump said on social media that he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to…
Will the joint war on Iran with Israel compromise the United States’ already taxed missile stockpile, challenged by sluggish production? The question is on the minds of many in the defense space.“The stockpiles are not going to be replenished anytime soon,” said Jerry McGinn, who leads industrial base policy at…
