Navy, Hadrian launch partnership, open facility to build submarine parts
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan said that the public-private arrangement is a “novel transaction” that ensures the service is investing in “outcomes, not promises.”
Pentagon comptroller says a ‘generational investment’ is coming, but when?
With a potential $1.5 trillion budget expected soon, Aaron Mehta asks the questions we're all thinking.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Hegseth confirms potential $200 billion request for Iran operations, but figure ‘could move’
“Obviously it takes … money to kill bad guys so we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future,” said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Pentagon CTO ‘pretty confident’ about life after Anthropic
“We've already deployed OpenAI in the last few weeks, and we're going to deploy the others here, [starting] with Gemini," Undersecretary for Research and Engineering Emil Michael said.
With the Pentagon’s FY27 budget request forthcoming, it’s unclear if it will hit $1.5 trillion
The Trump administration has not disclosed if that figure will be spread between the base budget and supplemental for operations against Iran.
Will Congress back an Iran war supplemental? Rep. Rob Wittman thinks so.
Rep. Rob Wittman joins Breaking Defense to talk through congressional support for an Iran war supplemental and the FY27 budget.
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3D vision is redefining how drones navigate without GPS
As “dirty” RF and contested environments proliferate, autonomy increasingly depends on resilient positioning.
To accelerate space capabilities, Pentagon ups Golden Dome spending plan by $10 billion
By raising the cost estimate to $185 billion, Gen. Michael Guetlein said it would accelerate development of the Airborne Moving Target Indication, space data network and the Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor.
Navy unveils acquisition reform, establishes five more PAE organizations
The Navy previously established a PAE for Robotics and Autonomous Systems in December.
CENTCOM confirms six dead in tanker crash in Iraq, as Iran conflict approaches third week
“The incident occurred over friendly territory in Western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission, and, again, was not the result … of hostile or friendly fire,” Gen. Dan Caine said today.
After Epic Fury, a munitions supplemental becomes imperative
The conflict with Iran has incurred a staggering expenditure of ordnance that jeopardizes long-term deterrence and defense goals.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Iran supplemental to fund mix of ‘new things’ and legacy systems: Pentagon comptroller
Jules Hurst did not say when lawmakers could expect to receive the funding request, which is said to be over $50 billion.
Army eyeing four categories for new FMS weapons catalog
Head of Army acquisition Brent Ingraham said the service will initially focus on the sale of integrated air and missile defense, long-range fires, UAS and counter-UAS weapons.
The Pentagon wants to buy 30,000 new drones. Here are the key questions.
In the inaugural Pentagon Buzz, Ashley Roque shares details on the Pentagon's Drone Dominance program.
Defense companies to quadruple production of ‘exquisite’ weapons: Trump
It's unclear whether President Donald Trump's meeting with defense executives at the White House pushes munitions production beyond previously-announced agreements.