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Sam LaGrone, USNI News
Spreading the construction of the Trump-class battleship across several different manufacturing locations is key to the Navy’s current plan to build the almost…
Schogol, T&P
The Scorpion Light 81mm mobile mortar system allows crews to digitally enter data needed to hit targets and automatically moves the tube into firing position.
James F. Tobin, RealClearDefense
In the past year, Washington has begun to treat maritime power as what it truly is: national security infrastructure.
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Pairing uncrewed underwater vehicles and SEALs in submersibles opens the door to new operational possibilities, but there are challenges.
The South Korean Defence Project Promotion Committee on May 22 approved a $352 million contract to procure U.S. SM-6 anti-ballistic missiles, which were designed for integration on the Mk-41 vertical launch systems that are integrated onto the country’s destroyers. Shortages of the missiles following the U.S. assault on Iran are thought to have contributed to a protracted delivery schedule, with the missiles are only expected to become operational in 2033. The SM-6 is the newest type of anti-ballistic missile in the U.S. Navy’s arsenal, and was previously in service only in the U.S.
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk, the institute’s director of defense technologies. We asked them to share their views on how Ukraine’s military and defense firms turn battlefield feedback into rapid innovation, what Western investors and defense tech companies can learn from Ukraine, and what a future Ukraine-West defense industrial partnership might look like.
The Department of Defense does not primarily have a cyber recruiting problem — it has a cyber talent management problem. The military already possesses serious qualification frameworks, scholarship programs, credentialing systems, and selection tools. What it still lacks is a system tying assessment, training, assignment, performance, and retention together across an entire cyber career.In March 2026, the department announced at its Cyber Workforce Summit 2.0 an effort to reinvent the cyber workforce. Called Cyber Command 2.
During Congressional testimony from Department of Defense leadership last week, Representative George Whitesides asked Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “How does canceling a command-initiated review support a culture of accountability?” But before the secretary could answer, Whitesides instead decided to direct the question to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine. Clearly uncomfortable with the question, Caine replied, “What you are alluding to … is a partisan question.