The bill also restores funding for the E-7 Wedgetail after Defense Department leaders signaled their intent to continue the program.

“Our commitment to the law of armed conflict is not a constraint on our lethality,” Adm. Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM head, wrote in a memo.

The U.S. Department of Defense has expanded its list of companies it identifies as linked to China’s military-industrial ecosystem, adding major technology and industrial groups including Alibaba, Baidu and electric-vehicle manufacturer BYD in a move that underscores the growing overlap between commercial innovation and national-security competition. The updated “Chinese Military Companies” list,…

This week on The Break Out, a Seahawk drone is set to join aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, and a legendary aircraft took its final flight.

(RNS) — Why the Department of Defense's recent decision to eliminate more than 180 religious affiliation codes has me deeply concerned.

The “National Security Presidential Memorandum” urges closer collaboration with AI companies — as long as they’re compliant with Pentagon demands — and orders a sweeping revision of Biden-era guardrails on military AI.

Questions are piling up.

As global competition intensifies, this new Breaking Defense webinar examines how research security policies and practices are evolving to protect federally funded innovation while maintaining open scientific collaboration.

Senator Tom Cotton (on the left) and Representative Mike Rogers (on the right) with missiles in the background

So far, the department has ordered 20,000 small, FPV-style drones from 10 vendors.

Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., said the provisions would “streamline … processes, cut red tape, and close loopholes” that make it impossible for troops to repair equiprment.

“The bottom line is the US is becoming less dependable as a supplier,” one analyst said.

North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd outlines his concerns for defense firms as lawmakers get closer to the midterm elections.

Bak Trumps mange irrasjonelle handlinger synes USA å ha en klar plan for å hindre Kina i å få et økonomisk og geopolitisk overtak: en statsstyrt økonomi og en stat styrt av finansfolk.

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Just days after a federal appeals court revived a major challenge to the military's enlistment ban, the same court has clarified that qualified people living with HIV can once again join the armed forces while the case moves forward.

In an order issued Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said that when it agreed last month to rehear __Wilkins v. Hegseth__ , it also…

In our final video looking at manned-unmanned teaming, we consider likely changes ahead for defense manufacturers as the US increasingly partners with drones in combat.

He regrets his actions, though.

A number of factors may “lead even long-standing allies and partners to question whether or not it’s wise to continue to depend on the United States for essential defense articles and services,” one analyst said.

President Donald Trump next to a photo of the Kennedy Center

“Compliance does not equal security. It did not when I was in industry, and it does not from my seat where I am today,” DoD CIO Kirsten Davie said.

AI powerhouse Anthropic announced on Monday that it has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC, establishing the framework for what could become a historic IPO potentially valuing the company at more than $1 trillion.

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This week on The Break Out, we look at how long it might take to restock thousands of US munitions used against Iran.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is continuing his discriminatory campaign to remake the U.S. military in his image. Last month, a list of nearly two dozen one-star promotions included no women and only two nonwhite officers. On Monday, The New York Times was able to reveal exactly how that happened.

Hegseth personally intervened to block the promotion of several senior Navy officers, including at…

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took another swipe at Washington's NATO and European partners on Saturday, saying those that do not hike defence spending sufficiently "will face a clear shift in how we do business".

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Indo-Pacific countries investments in their defense an example of how burden sharing works, says Hegseth

a suspected drug boat burning after it was attacked by the U.S. military

“The fact is, no one spends $1.85 billion studying something. That money is there for procurement of assets,” an OMB official told Breaking Defense in an interview.

A federal appeals court has revived a major challenge to the U.S. military’s HIV enlistment ban, reopening a closely watched case that could determine whether people living with HIV can continue to be categorically barred from serving.

In an order issued May 18, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed to rehear __Wilkins v. Hegseth__ , vacating a February ruling by a…

Adversaries of the United States are reportedly using location data to target military forces deployed to war zones, the news coming amid the war with Iran's radical Islamic regime.

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In the third video focused on manned-unmanned teaming, we trace how the concept has evolved inside the US defense industry and among other militaries across the globe.