Lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committees may force the Trump administration to continue the E-7A Wedgetail program, even as the Defense Department sought to cut the effort in favor of similar ...

Instead, funding for unmanned aircraft and counter-drone systems is distributed across at least 214 separate program lines, according to a Real Time Defense analysis of fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

With a topline of nearly $925 billion, the Senate Armed Services Committee unveiled its draft fiscal year 2026 defense authorization bill that would prioritize Navy advancement in several areas, ...

Senate authorizers want to shift the responsibility of counter small unmanned systems from the Army to within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, according to an executive summary of the "chairman ...

On July 11, 2025 the Senate Armed Services Committee released an executive summary of its fiscal year 2026 defense authorization bill.

A new order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth includes several directives aimed at facilitating "rapid proliferation” of small uncrewed aerial systems across every military unit. The “ Unleashing U.

The Air Force wants to kick-off a Crewed Platform Integration program next year to pair its nascent Collaborative Combat Aircraft with F-22 Raptor jets, according to fiscal year 2026 budget request ...

The July 9, 2025 Congressional Research Service "In Focus" report discusses the Navy's T-AGOS ocean surveillance shipbuilding program.

The Navy has broken ground on a new subsea and seabed warfare facility to encourage further research, development, testing and evaluation of autonomous unmanned systems -- a move that follows ...

Draft legislation would lock in the Air Force's Global Strike Command as the central authority for nuclear and long-range strike operations, a proposal that directly responds to concerns raised ...

On July 10, 2025, the Defense Department publicly released a memo (marked "controlled unclassified information") signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth titled "Unleashing U.S. Military Drone ...

The Long Range Fires (LRF) program aimed to equip a Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires (ROGUE-Fires) vehicle with a single-cell MK-41 vertical launch system to fire Tomahawk ...