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 ...

House authorizers are seeking to rapidly diversify the pool of alternative manufacturers of Standard Missile-6 components -- including Mk-72 and Mk-104 rocket motors -- and are asking the Navy to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a July 7, 2025 memo, the Defense Department inspector general's office announces a "follow-up evaluation" that will "determine whether the DOD effectively and efficiently implemented accountability ...

Lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee worry the Army doesn't have a clear vision for its next-generation ground station for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, according to a ...

The House Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2026 defense policy bill includes provisions from bicameral legislation introduced earlier this year aimed at expanding the United States' defense ...