The Lockheed Martin-built satellite, the sixth and final SBIRS vehicle to launch to geosynchronous orbit, lifted off the morning of Aug. 4 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder will be the department’s next press secretary.

China says it conducted “precision missile strikes” in the Taiwan Strait on Thursday as part of military exercises.

Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO in May, setting aside their longstanding stance of military nonalignment.

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.