Defense

Defense Giants Move Toward High-Volume Manufacturing to Meet Surging Space Force Demand

Boeing joins Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin in a massive shift from bespoke engineering to standardized assembly for orbital defense.

Defense

Boeing moves its defense HQ back to St. Louis

The aerospace giant’s global headquarters will remain in Arlington, Va.

Defense

Move over, Best Ranger; the Army’s looking for the best drone pilots

The Huntsville competition is also meant to shape the selection and training of unmanned systems operators.

Science & Tech

Space, energy and cyber venture rounds to highlight

The venture arms of Lockheed Martin and RTX, plus the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel organization get mentions in this listing.

Defense

DOD’s $66B IT budget pivots to AI and efficiency

immixGroup Senior Analyst Joshua Iseler describes how DOD’s budget is evolving and where the spending priorities are.

Science & Tech

Oracle books $88M Air Force Cloud One contract

This award follows a $581 million contract with Amazon Web Services as the Air Force continues to build out its multi-cloud infrastructure.

Defense

Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work

Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.

Defense

Three firms move ahead in Army’s future-of-flight-training helicopter training takeover

Despite Congressional concerns, the Army is sprinting to Phase III of its “Flight School Next” initiative.

Ideas

Space: the Final Frontier for data processing?

Earth may not be the hub for space-based communications much longer, and for good reason.

Ideas

Space-based interceptors make even less sense now

The Pentagon and its Golden Dome contractors are proposing to replace one showstopping problem with another.

Science & Tech

York Space Systems raises $629M in public offering

The 14-year-old satellite manufacturer got the valuation it wanted from Wall Street in an active year for space listings.

Science & Tech

Trump nominee to lead NSA commits to backing controversial spying law

Lt. Gen. Josh Rudd also promised to prioritize NSA efforts to protect U.S. elections.

Defense

Lockheed CEO: Air Force RQ-170 drones used in mission to capture Maduro

Missions for the “Beast of Kandahar” stealth drone are rarely acknowledged, experts say.

Defense

US developed ‘non-kinetic’ cell ahead of Venezuela mission to push cyber operations

Officials said that cyber capabilities are expected to play a central role in future U.S. military undertakings.

Defense

Northrop CEO: deal to accelerate B-21 production could arrive in months

Last year’s government shutdown delayed negotiations between the company and service. Another is looming.

Defense

ICEYE Growing in Popularity as Europe Seeks to Improve Space-Based Capability

A growing number of countries are investing in sovereign SAR satellite constellations amid a broader push for strategic autonomy in space.

Ideas

The right roadmap to defense innovation in space

The defense community faces a fundamental challenge: as requirements grow more complex, timelines expand, and adversaries seize the opportunity to accelerate their own capabilities and leapfrog the leaders.

Defense

Space Force probably needs twice as many guardians, vice chief says

The service’s budget and constellation have doubled since its founding, Gen. Shawn Bratton noted.

Defense

Space Force previews $200M ground operations support recompete

The service branch unveils a draft solicitation for its effort to hire a contractor that can aid in the prototyping and operations of satellite ground systems and satellite operations centers.