The testbed is scheduled to be on orbit in time for next year’s Northern Edge exercise hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman with a contract potentially worth several billion dollars to modernize and upgrade the weapon systems that make up the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System that protects the U.S. homeland from ballistic missile attacks.

The Marine Corps is refocusing on maritime missions, and it’s already demonstrated four ways to sink a ship as part of this transition.

Maj. Gen. Francis Donovan, of the 2nd Marine Division and Task Force 61/2, has given Defense News an insider’s view of force structure and equipment involved in the realization of the Corps’ Force Design 2030.

“We were trying to look at our own past experiences and understand what made it work,” L3Harris’ Luke Savoie said of the design process for the AT-802U Sky Warden, U.S. Special Operations Command’s new Armed Overwatch plane.

New funding, strategy and focus puts CBRN back in the mix.

“DISA has made clear that we will not forget that the ‘fight’ is fought on SIPRNet,” said Christopher Barnhurst, the agency’s deputy director.

Those interested in supporting the free people of Taiwan and pushing back on increasingly aggressive behavior from Beijing should not miss an important legislative development unfolding on Capitol Hill.

Find out how much money goes to funding militaries around the world, plus how many warheads are still deployed.

AFSOC hopes its Armed Overwatch plane will be able to pressure violent extremist groups in austere places like Africa, where the airspace is largely permissive.