European Commission adopts $1.7B work program to ramp up weapons production
The European Defence Industry Programme covers funding for 2026 through 2027 with a first round of calls for proposals opening on the EU’s tender portal starting on Tuesday.
Poland unveils detailed defense spending for $51B in EU SAFE loans
According to Poland’s government, the money, which will be spent between 2026 and 2030, will go to a wide variety of systems, including artillery, cybersecurity, ground combat and more.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
5 countries, 10 companies, €15M: PRECISE AI project aims to protect European infrastructure
Funded by the EU’s European Defense Fund and led by Spanish-based multinational GMV, PRECISE will use AI to analyze satellite imagery and recreate 3D models of critical sites.
Raytheon exec: Patriots to be ‘as up to date as humanly possible’ amid European demand
"We've invested more than a billion dollars in securing material ahead of orders, and that makes it a lot easier [to deliver on new orders]," said Tom Laliberty, president of land and air defense systems at Raytheon.
Europe’s time to shine in space? 2026 preview
Germany is sprinting to pump up its military space systems, perhaps changing the balance of power in setting European-wide priorities.
Five stories that surprised the space world: 2025 review
'Unsettled' is a polite word for 2025 in the space domain.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
ESA leaders greenlight $1.6 billion for new ‘non-aggressive’ space security initiative
ESA's ruling Council of Ministers approved a whopping $25.7B in funds over the next three years — a 32 percent increase over the previous three-year budget.
Germany’s first space security strategy aims at independent defensive, offensive capabilities
The new strategy calls on German MoD to develop a number of new space-based capabilities, including "effectors" to counter adversary threats on orbit such as agile spaceplanes and "bodyguard" satellites with shoot-back systems.
US slams ‘discriminatory’ draft EU space law as imperiling NATO cooperation
The State Department's damning critique argues that, if enacted, the draft law would imperil cooperation on "space weather, remote sensing, space exploration, spaceflight safety, space debris mitigation and remediation, [and] communications."
In historic shift, ESA poised to take on defense role
Since its founding 50 years ago, the European Space Agency has shunned involvement in military space activities.
Europe’s strategic autonomy push fuels space mega-merger
"Project Bromo is a sovereignty play," Caleb Henry, research director at Quilty Space, told Breaking Defense.
European Council vows to ‘deliver at pace’ defense readiness roadmap 2030
The long term defense readiness project also calls for 40 percent, at minimum, of European Union defense acquisitions to be carried out on a joint procurement basis by the close of 2027.
EU to spend ‘hundreds of billions’ on US arms? Maybe not but demand is real, analysts say
Analyst Max Bergmann told Breaking Defense that if President Donald Trump's claim is to be taken literally, “there's a lot of work that has to be done” in budgeting terms by individual nations.
EU and UK agree on defense deal, ‘second step’ needed to secure access to $169B in funds
The “United Kingdom and the European Commission should swiftly explore any possibilities for mutually beneficial enhanced cooperation created by the SAFE instrument, once adopted, in accordance with their respective legal frameworks,” states a UK-EU "Common Understanding" document.