Defense One Radio, Ep. 120: Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown

Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown sat down with Defense One’s Marcus Weisgerber to discuss priorities for the year ahead, lessons from Russia’s Ukraine invasion, and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 24, 2023

Defense Business Brief: A new space-sensor play; Speed bump for L3Harris-Aerojet deal; Boeing’s big Apache order; and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 20, 2023

Pentagon Creates Cell to Oversee Expansion of Weapon Production Lines

The move comes as the military looks to increasingly bulk buy munitions.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 15, 2023

Pentagon Mobilized to Support Tech Startups After Bank Failure

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank presents the Defense Department with warnings—and opportunities.

• Marcus Weisgerber and Patrick Tucker
• March 15, 2023

Defense Business Brief: Budget bullet-points; Aircraft arrivals; Let’s kill ‘dead on arrival’; and more...

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 13, 2023

Biden Unveils Plans for New Australian-US-UK Submarine

The plan also calls for Australia to buy three American-made Virginia-class submarines, with options for two more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 13, 2023

The Pentagon’s 2024 Budget Proposal, In Short

The spending plan includes $315 billion to develop and buy new weapons.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 13, 2023

Let Us Bulk-Buy Missiles for Fighting China, Pentagon Asks Congress

The Defense Department says it wants to use more multi-year munition buys in future years as well.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 13, 2023

Biden Ditches Trump’s Air Force One Paint Scheme For Classic Blue-and-White

But the new jets won’t have any polished metal.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 10, 2023

Biden’s $842B Pentagon Budget Proposal Would Boost New Weapons

The spending plan also proposes industrial-base investments.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 9, 2023

Air Force Wants Faster A-10 Retirements

21 Warthogs are going away this year, and service leaders hope Congress will allow more.

• Audrey Decker and Marcus Weisgerber
• March 7, 2023

Air Force Slashes ‘Bridge Tanker’ Buy, Sets Deadline for Clean-Sheet Aerial Refueler

Stealthy new tanker jet should arrive in the 2030s, service’s top weapons buyer says.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 6, 2023

Defense Business Brief: Biden moves to boost hypersonic weapons industrial base; Air Force orders new radar planes; Raytheon to build new missile warning satellites; and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 6, 2023

Panel Seeks Ways to Accelerate Pentagon Budgeting—and Keep Up with China

Recommendations are expected soon on adapting a decades-old way of doing things for the modern era.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• March 2, 2023

Defense Business Brief: End of Super Hornet production nears; New Navy hospital ships; Leidos names new CEO; and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 27, 2023

Defense Business Brief: Russia touts weapons in Middle East; Army moves to boost artillery round production; Lockheed to start installing hypersonic missiles on destroyers; and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 21, 2023

Will Roper’s startup; NATO talks Ukrainian fighter jets; Poland cleared to buy $10B in HIMARS; and more.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 13, 2023

Memo Details Effort to Boost Production of Weapons Sent to Ukraine

The Pentagon's top buyer offers a “targeted list” of weapons to help solve a problem decades in the making.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 8, 2023

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Balloon Off Coast of South Carolina

It appears the Raptor just got its first air-to-air kill.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 4, 2023

The Army Picked a Black Hawk Replacement — But the Fight May Have Just Begun

Sikorsky and Boeing are protesting the service choosing a Bell-made tiltrotor, and lawmakers are angry.

• Marcus Weisgerber
• February 3, 2023