Despite ongoing efforts by the Defense Department to bolster the space supply chain, government and commercial satellite programs continue to struggle with shortfalls in several critical areas, including on-orbit propulsion, optical communications terminals, and hardened electronics, according to industry and Pentagon officials.
For the first time ever, the Pentagon is set to spend a year without a full congressional budget—a sharp drop in spending that threatens to throttle the military’s work, from weapons programs to training. ... The massive cut comes at a bizarre moment for Pentagon spending, which is being pushed in multiple directions by multiple parts of the government.
Venture-capital firms that have been pouring money into American defense startups are setting their sights on Israel, investing in military tech companies that have emerged since the country went to war in Gaza and Lebanon. Driving the investment is the belief that Israeli firms will increasingly compete for contracts in the U.S. and in European countries where military spending is expected to surge in coming years.
The secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force can request exemptions for civilian hiring freezes at “readiness-centric” locations, according to a new memo from Secretary of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
In an effort to speed up software delivery across the Department of Defense, well known defense contractor SAIC partnered with Defense Unicorns, a veteran-owned small business, to provide Defense Unicorns’s Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) to both warfighters and leaders within the Pentagon.
The largest of China’s two new tailless stealth fighters has flown again. This is just the second time we have evidence of it in the air, the first coming on Dec. 26, presumably during its inaugural flight. That day Beijing’s two new and previously never seen before heavy fighter designs were photographed and recorded in the sky.
Testing centers where military recruits take their initial screening tests re-opened this week following a round of budget cuts recommended by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The sites administer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test, ASVAB, which all hopeful future service members must take before enlisting in the military and which plays a major role in determining the jobs they might qualify for.
For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ruinous casualty numbers. The odds of a B-17 crewman surviving the 25 missions required to complete a tour were only one in four. Casualties totaled among the tens of thousands. Amid the carnage, one of America’s gilded elite stepped forward, and without his near fanatical guidance, America’s bombing campaign against Germany may well have failed.
