Defense Watch

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 […]

Funding Deadline. Without passage of a Continuing Resolution (CR) on or before midnight on Dec. 20, the federal government, including DoD, will shut down. The original CR was on the […]

Trump Proof. The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s push to accelerate adoption of AI tools across the Defense Department is unlikely to change under the incoming Trump administration, Radha […]

Nuclear C3. While it may not get the attention that strategic programs, like Sentinel and the B-21, get, modernization of nuclear command and control and communications (NC3) is vital, according […]