Pentagon sources have raised serious concern regarding the rapid depletion of of the U.S. Navy’s BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile arsenal during the ongoing U.S.-led war effort against Iran, with officials speaking to Washington Post stressing that the issue of depletion of scarce and high cost munitions types has been a matter of growing importance for the Department of War.
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The Space Force is looking to revise launch plans for a number of upcoming national security missions following a recent issue with a United Launch Alliance rocket that could take months to resolve, according to a senior official.
During a Space Force mission last month, ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket experienced a “significant performance anomaly” with one of the vehicle’s four solid rocket motors during lift off, according to the company.
The Navy is setting up a one-stop-shop for medium unmanned surface vessels (MUSVs) that carry swappable, containerized payloads in faster, multi-mission deployments, as it reshapes its model for buying autonomous watercraft that navigate, handle cargo and carry out certain military operations with little to no human input.
As part of a force-wide “rebalancing” and cost-saving effort, the Army started notifying thousands of civilian employees this week that their roles are surplus, DefenseScoop has learned, giving them days to accept offers to voluntarily fill open vacancies or separate, or be forced to move positions.
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the Army has undergone significant structural changes, to include consolidating multiple entities into a single command.
Smart Shooter has secured its first contract from the US Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) for the supply of SMASH 2000LE fire control systems.
The Army is entering exclusive negotiations with the Carlyle Group and CyrusOne to build and operate commercial hyperscale data centers on military installations in Texas and Utah, the service announced Thursday.
The initiative is being pursued through the Army’s Enhanced Use Lease program, after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Defense Department and other agencies to facilitate data center infrastructure projects that provide jobs and undergird key IT capabilities like the internet, cloud, and AI.
It appears that the F-14 Tomcat, retired from the U.S. Navy in 2006 but still in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, has finally come to the end of the runway.
When the war with Iran began on Feb. 28, one of the early goals was to hamstring the Iranian air force, which boasted a smattering of aircraft. This included French Mirage F1s, Soviet MiG-29s, and American F-4 Phantoms, F-5 Tiger IIs, and the beloved F-14 Tomcats. In satellite imagery and released footage, we can see the effectiveness of that campaign, with Tomcats smoldering on tarmacs.
Latvia has already begun delivery of CVR(T) armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine, understood to be the Spartan or Scimitar variants.
Morgan Plummer is Vice President of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation. He previously served as a Professor of Practice at the U.S. Air Force Academy and as Managing Director of the Department of Defense’s National Security Innovation Network.
The Trump administration’s recent decision to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” marked an extraordinary escalation in the relationship between Washington and the tech sector. If this precedent holds, it could send a powerful warning to innovators: cooperate with the U.S.
The US Department of War (DoW) has entered into a framework agreement with BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to quadruple manufacturing of seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor.