Pentagon

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) on Wednesday called for the Pentagon to create a directed energy weapons demonstration fund that would be used exclusively for high energy laser and high power […]

President Donald Trump has tapped Navy Rear Adm. Mathias “Mat” Winter to be the next director of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Department of Defense announced March 28. […]

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is leading an interagency study at the behest of the Defense Department to examine the potential threat from synthetic biological agents, when these threats […]

Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday endorsed the Pentagon’s European Reassurance Initiative. “If we don’t have the funding to maintain (ERI), then, frankly, the reassurance goes away,” Mattis told the […]

The Air Force and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) on Saturday successfully launched the ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) satellite, according to an Air Force statement. Launch took place […]

The U.S. Department of Defense, which is ramping up efforts to develop and field equipment to fight hostile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is reviewing several operational and policy issues to […]

The Department of Defense plans to launch a project this year to improve its ability to use the vast amounts of intelligence data it collects, a DoD official said March […]

The Pentagon on Thursday requested an additional $30 billion in fiscal year 2017 funding as part of its “supplemental.” The $30 billion includes nearly $25 billion in base funding plus […]

President Donald Trump plans to nominate long-time Boeing [BA] executive Patrick “Pat” Shanahan to be the Pentagon’s No. 2 official, the White House announced March 16. If confirmed by the […]

The fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint released Thursday morning features, as expected, a $54 billion boost in defense spending, but it also trims NASA’s budget by roughly 1 percent, according […]