Bloomberg The Pentagon inflated the government shutdown’s national-security impact on a secretive, ultra-long-range missile that’s key to helping the U.S. compete militarily against China

USNI N. The stopgap spending bill – which would fund the government through Jan. 30, 2026 – includes cost to complete money for half a dozen Navy shipbuilding programs

Naval Technology These ships are intended to deliver fuel and dry cargo to navy ships at sea and include aviation capability.

CDR Salamander remembering the mistake that made modernity

Sam LaGrone, USNI News Ford arrives in SOUTHCOM amid a U.S. campaign striking suspected narcotics traffickers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific.

Peter Layton, RealClearDefense Today’s air forces are designed around highly sophisticated, technically impressive combat aircraft and this is their Achillies heel.

NDM The Defense Department is undergoing a massive transformation of its weapons buying process, and one group that could benefit is companies with little history of doing business with the…

DefOne One expert said the reforms would sweep away Cold War processes—and draw backlash from established primes.

John Adams, RealClearDefense To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Must Make AI Its Strongest Technological Ally

NIPP Since the end of the Cold War, under the delusion of the “end of history,” the United States has gradually lost the nuclear competency thought to be obsolete and irrelevant to…