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A new report shows the Defense Department spends less than 1% of its procurement budget on commercially derived defense technology, a disparity drawing attention on Capitol Hill and across industry as ...

Modernization efforts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program are "significantly behind schedule," according to an annual report from the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, ...

The Pentagon's independent weapons testing office is calling for "extreme measures" to streamline testing and accelerate fielding of the military's most advanced systems, a push t ...

The March 13, 2026 Congressional Research Service "Insight" report discusses potential issues for lawmakers regarding the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic over autonomous weapon systems.

Defense contractor AeroVironment announced today it has acquired uncrewed-aircraft-system and advanced-air-mobility-platform producer Empirical Systems Aerospace in an agreement valued at ...

The Navy is standing up five new Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs) who are set to absorb a large share of the duties currently performed by Naval Sea Systems Command amid a Pentagon-wide ...

In March 2026, the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation released the fiscal year 2025 report.

The second increment of the Army's Precision Strike Missile recently passed its first flight test, Lockheed Martin announced last week, setting the stage for a long-range fires capability that can ...

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Army Contracting Command has awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $20 billion to consolidate procurement of the company's commercially available technologies for the government ...

The March 12, 2026 Congressional Research Service "Insight" report discusses the status of the U.S. military's inventories of munitions since the United States and Israel launched military operations ...