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Air Warfare

Air Force picks General Atomics, Anduril to build first CCA drone wingmen

By Aaron Mehta and Michael Marrow

Air Warfare

How Honeywell Aerospace plans to tap into the global CCA market

Honeywell Aerospace executive Matthew Milas lays out Honeywell's view on CCAs as a key platform-agnostic supplier.

By Breaking Defense Video

Land Warfare

Army to release proposal requests for ISV-Heavy late this year: Official

The service is looking to "accelerate" the delivery timeline of the ISV-Heavy, a top Army acquisition official told lawmakers.

By Carley Welch

Global

Aselsan lands $900M deal to help Turkey build Steel Dome air defense systems

Steel Dome, or Celik Kubbe, is a Turkish layered air defense project akin to the US Golden Dome effort, or Israel's various layered systems.

By Agnes Helou

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Land Warfare

How one US Army brigade is learning to sacrifice robots in lieu of humans

The 3rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division performed a successful robotic combined arms breach during a recent JRTC rotation, the brigade's commander told Breaking Defense.

By Carley Welch

Air Warfare

3D printing company Divergent to produce Tomahawk structure at new factory, CEO says

“We need all hands on deck, we need as many of these as we can possibly get, and Divergent is good complimentary supply for [Raytheon],” said CEO Lukas Czinger.

By Valerie Insinna

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A review of small unmanned systems as well as space-launch options showcased at ILA Berlin 2026.

Pentagon

Goodbye INDOPACOM: Pentagon reverts back to Pacific Command

The rechristening follows a series of other name changes inside the department under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

By Ashley Roque

NATO Secretary General says US not ‘pulling away’ from allies

Rutte also repeated messaging around the need for NATO allies to ramp up weapons production and deliver a stronger industrial base by making “steady” increases to defense investment plans.

By Tim Martin

Pentagon

Pentagon aims to sidestep potential ‘collusion’ through Defense Production Act: Senior official

"Our interest is using voluntary agreements .... For us to articulate problems to them around nasty issues in the supply chain and the industrial base that allow them to communicate and work together, essentially collude," said Michael Cadenazzi, the assistant secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy.

By Ashley Roque

Networks & Digital Warfare

Safeguarding federally funded innovation: navigating the new era of research security

New webinar Safeguarding funded innovation in research security

Join us 6/24 as experts discuss evolving US research security policy and innovation protection. 1 CPE credit eligible.

By Breaking Defense

Pentagon

Lockheed, GM announce partnership to bolster production for munitions and more

“What does a THAAD air defense interceptor have in common with Corvette?” Lockheed COO Frank St. John said. “Both of them are highly engineered, both of them are precision manufactured, both of them have broad and diverse supply chains, and both of them are produced at rate."

By Carley Welch and Valerie Insinna

Naval Warfare

Mach Industries wins DIU contract for maritime, long-range strike drone

The Navy is seeking an unmanned aerial system that can operate from ships without a large flight deck to conduct long-range strikes.

By Diana Stancy

Air Warfare

UK defense chief says operations to be ‘dialed back’ without additional spending

Richard Knighton, chief of the UK defense staff, told a House of Lords committee today that he is “most concerned” about day-to-day operations budgeting.

By Tim Martin

Land Warfare

Malaysia to buy 18 Caesar self-propelled howitzers, KNDS announces at Eurosatory

The contract was signed following a protracted saga in Malaysia's attempts to introduce a self-propelled howitzer.

By Mike Yeo

Space, Naval Warfare

Drones of the Berlin Air Show, plus a window into Europe’s space ambitions

This week on The Break Out, a brief review of small unmanned systems as well as space-launch options showcased at ILA Berlin 2026.

By Breaking Defense Video

Air Warfare

Canada opens negotiations on M-346 trainer aircraft

The news comes as Canada continued to debate whether to finalize a large procurement of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, or add in a procurement of Saab-made Gripen jets

By Aaron Mehta

Land Warfare

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Army’s efforts to jam its own forces — and what it learned

Breaking Defense embedded with the Army's red team during the Ivy Mass exercise. The key takeaways will drive tactics and procurement going forward.

By Mark Pomerleau

Global

With new Paris office, UAE’s EDGE Group sees Europe as ‘next large market’: CEO

EDGE CEO Hamad Al Marar told Breaking Defense the company is seeing high demand for its tech after it played a role in defending the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attacks.

By Lee Ferran

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Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy: A New Era in Defense

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