The D Brief: More mixed messaging on war; Airstrike pricetag; DOD civs pressed to seek border duty; Anthropic sues Hegseth; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 10, 2026

The D Brief: Sentinel’s progress; Buildup near Iran; Canada’s decoupling plan; Russia targets Ukrainian energy; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• February 18, 2026

The D Brief: NDAA deets; Boat-strike tug-of-war; DOD’s AI plans; GD’s collaborative lab; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• December 9, 2025

The D Brief: DTIC, downsizing; INDOPACOM’s ‘Expeditionary foundry’; New solid-rocket maker emerges; NASA eyes moon reactor; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Audrey Decker
• August 5, 2025

The D Brief: DOD budget developments; Trump touts Everglades detention center; Lancet: USAID cuts could cost 14M lives by 2030; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Audrey Decker
• July 1, 2025

The D Brief: ARRW is back; Amphib budgets; Putin’s AI plan; Europe’s aid to Ukraine; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• June 6, 2025

The D Brief: Cuts to DOT&E; Uncrewed F-35?; Qatari jet’s a mess; Border gets barracks funding; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• May 29, 2025

The D Brief: Army Reserve’s Pacific plan; What Ukraine needs; Peace talks in Turkey; Misinformation studies cancelled; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson
• May 16, 2025

Don't cut this key driver of technological advantage

Defense-related research and development at America’s universities has helped make the U.S. military the best in the world.

• Abigail Robbins
• March 5, 2025

The D Brief: Anti-ISIS ops continue; How sanctioned oil flows; DOD red-teams AI; Protecting undersea cables; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• January 7, 2025

Senators seek to advance AI capabilities at national labs

Proposed legislation looks to give the U.S. national laboratories a strong artificial intelligence infrastructure while acknowledging associated risks.

• Alexandra Kelley
• July 17, 2024

Meet the Air Force’s secretive long-range drone that flies for days

The robot surveillance aircraft can fly for 80 hours without refueling.

• Audrey Decker
• July 2, 2024

Defense One Radio, Ep. 158: Tech Summit: The state of hypersonics

Our 2024 Tech Summit coverage continues with a discussion about the future of hypersonic missile research and development.

• Defense One Staff
• July 1, 2024

The Navy wants to crowdsource innovation

CTO urges the Navy Department to hold more “structured challenges” to spur breakthroughs.

• Bradley Peniston
• May 30, 2024

China’s nascent railgun is just the tip of its shipboard R&D

Meet the lab working to equip PLAN warships with vast amounts of electrical power.

• Matt Bruzzese and Peter W. Singer
• March 15, 2024

Today's D Brief: Marines to Haiti; T-7 delayed again; Pentagon’s battlefield bottlenecks; Exploring the future with fiction; And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 14, 2024

National Science Foundation plans $29M for quantum sensing research

• Alexandra Kelley
• August 23, 2023