Defense Watch

Static Fire. The U.S. Air Force said that the service and Northrop Grumman conducted “a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] stage-one solid rocket […]

AFA Warfare Symposium. While top DoD and military service officials have often been absent from conferences in the last four months following the November election, the Air and Space Forces […]

Meink Meeting. The office of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) says that he met on Thursday with Troy Meink, President Trump’s nominee for Air Force secretary. Wicker’s […]

Unmanned Help. As the Navy has reduced its assets in U.S. Southern Command’s operational area, the service has introduced more Saildrone unmanned surface vessels, which are providing “great domain awareness” […]

Iron Dome Industry Day. The Missile Defense Agency’s Request for Information looking for capabilities to demonstrate for President Trump’s “Iron Dome for America” executive order includes a plan to conduct […]

Marine C-UAS. A Marine Corps official boasted they are using newly-granted acquisition authorities via a cross-functional team and fusion cell to field a new ground-based counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) defense […]

House Appropriations. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) chair, has said he expects the panel’s subcommittees to have topline levels for final fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills […]

Digital Design. During the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the nominee for defense secretary, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) asked him how he would get the Pentagon to “move forward faster” […]

Farewell Address. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is to give his farewell address at a 2 p.m. ceremony on Monday. Hours before that, Kendall is to participate in a forum […]

V-BAT for Japan. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force has selected Shield AI’s V-BAT as its Group 3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS)program of record to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities on […]