2 days ago · Inside Defense, from the award-winning Inside the Pentagon family of newsletters, is the nation's best online news service for defense and aerospace professionals. We specialize in exclusive, hard-hitting news on Defense Department programs, procurement and policymaking.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Army has selected BAE Systems to produce a prototype cannon that flips its offensive punch for a defensive role as part of a wider U.S. military project to shield high-value, small-area assets by defeating cruise missile raids with a paradigm-changing capability: hypervelocity projectile gunfire.

Dec 13, 2024 · The U.S. military inched closer to fielding a new class of ultra-fast, maneuvering weapons -- a 16-year odyssey to precisely attack targets more than 2,000 miles away with a non-nuclear strike -- following a "successful" flight test over the Atlantic Ocean of the Common Hypersonic Missile.

Jan 3, 2025 · The Air Force and Navy secretaries, along with commanders of the combatant commands, must take a deep look at existing inventory requirements for air-to-air missiles and consider whether to adjust acquisition plans, according to the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.

Dec 18, 2024 · The Senate voted today 85-14 to pass the final version of the fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill, sending the $895 billion piece of legislation to President Biden for his signature.. Biden is expected to sign the bill into law, making it the 64th consecutive year the legislation will be passed.. The bill, which passed the House last week 281-140, includes numerous provisions related ...

Sep 25, 2024 · The Missile Defense Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to develop the Glide Phase Interceptor, knocking RTX from the contest to provide a new ship-based missile optimized to defeat long-range hypersonic threats and giving shape to a new order in the U.S. missile defense industrial base.

4 days ago · Inside Defense, from the award-winning Inside the Pentagon family of newsletters, is the nation's best online news service for defense and aerospace professionals. We specialize in exclusive, hard-hitting news on Defense Department programs, procurement and policymaking.

Jan 6, 2025 · Inside Defense, from the award-winning Inside the Pentagon family of newsletters, is the nation's best online news service for defense and aerospace professionals. We specialize in exclusive, hard-hitting news on Defense Department programs, procurement and policymaking.

Oct 29, 2024 · The newest version of the Abrams tank, known as the M1E3, will be the Army’s first hybrid-electric combat vehicle, leveraging lessons learned from the Ukrainian battlefield, a senior defense official said Monday.

Dec 31, 2024 · The Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Biden on Christmas Eve, directs the Defense Department's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer to establish the DOD hackathon program and features a report due within 180 days from the Director of National Intelligence on "the implications of …