Threats

The D Brief: New bomb for Ukraine; Congress averts shutdown; Army hits recruiting goal; SECDEF in London; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Business

FBI raids defense contractor Carahsoft

Company president says the agents were there "as part of an investigation into a company with which Carahsoft has done business in the past."

  • David DiMolfetta
Ideas

National security deserves better than House Speaker’s 6-month CR plan

Bipartisan leaders should insist on—and meet—a tighter deadline for the fiscal 2025 spending bills.

  • Seamus P. Daniels and Todd Harrison
Threats

The D Brief: Pentagon’s shutdown alarm; US-China military talks; US to OK ATACMS strikes?; RIP, Lt. Jones; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: SecDef meets Ukrainian counterpart; West Bank fighting; GPS warnings; Army criticizes Trump campaigners; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Business

Pentagon keeping $5M per jet until Lockheed finishes F-35 upgrade

Lockheed issues small upgrade to TR-3, but full capability remains some time away.

  • Audrey Decker
Threats

US falling dangerously behind China on GPS development: Pentagon’s former space-policy leader

The Pentagon needs other position-navigation-timing systems if it loses connection to GPS satellites.

  • Audrey Decker
Threats

The D Brief: Wanted: faster deterrence; Trade rules, eased; Navy’s multi-amphib buy; Taliban takeover, mapped; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Policy

US, UK, Australia loosen mutual export controls

New rules may mark a “generational-level change” in allies’ industrial and technological collaboration.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

The D Brief: Kyiv hits Russian bases; Gaza effort, assessed; China hamstrings defense minister; Lone Arctic cutter withdraws; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Pentagon didn’t get heads-up about Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

U.S. officials still trying to discern Kyiv’s long-term objectives for the attack.

  • Audrey Decker
Science & Tech

Two programs suggest the Pentagon is getting better at buying technology

The Maven and Collaborative Combat Aircraft efforts display real steps forward, a pair of reports say.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

The D Brief: Bracing for Iran’s response; ISIS rises in Syria; Ukraine’s 20-mile incursion; Longer Korean deployments; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Policy

DARPA hires Twitter whistleblower as CIO

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko will return to the agency after a decade spent working for several leading tech firms.

  • Edward Graham
Threats

Replicator passes a milestone as some troops complete training with cheap new drones

DepSecDef says the systems will be a formal part of the 2026 budget.

  • Patrick Tucker
Science & Tech

Pentagon planning huge experiment for its connect-everything concept

“We see significant progress,” in opening up DOD data, one observer said. But a bigger, multinational test is coming.

  • Patrick Tucker
Policy

Meet the Pentagon's first-ever cyber policy chief

The Senate has confirmed Michael Sulmeyer to fill a position it helped create.

  • David DiMolfetta
Policy

The US is helping the Philippines modernize its military

The move comes at a time of rising tensions in the South China Sea.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

Army’s planned assault rotorcraft clears hurdle, will move to engineering phase

Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program gets greenlight to build six prototype tiltrotors.

  • Sam Skove
Policy

Senators take another crack at solving over-classification

The bipartisan Classification Reform for Transparency Act would establish a task force to narrow the criteria for classifying documents and make it harder for agencies to exempt records from automatic declassification.

  • Erich Wagner
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