Anduril will soon start making its robot drone wingman offering for the Air Force at its new Ohio factory months ahead of schedule, a company official told Defense One in an exclusive interview. The private defense contractor announced last year that it would build its manufacturing facility, dubbed Arsenal-1, in Columbus,…

For the first time in nearly a decade, foreign threats to U.S. elections are omitted from the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment, suggesting that the Trump administration is shifting focus away from a risk long treated as central to national security.The assessment was delivered on the heels of a major global…

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A deal to increase production of the Air Force’s B-21 bomber could be reached by March, Northrop Grumman’s CEO said. But a looming government shutdown could hinder talks, as one did last fall.Kathy Warden said no agreement has been reached about the $4.5 billion in reconciliation funding approved last year…

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