After $885 million, GAO warns it’s ‘unclear’ if Navy’s major UUV program will become program of record
The Navy plans to concurrently test its one XLUUV prototype this year while accepting new vehicles from prime contractor Boeing, according to GAO.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s RDT&E budget revealed – Which next-gen systems get a cash influx in FY26?
Breaking Defense obtained a copy of the Defense Department’s FY26 budget request for RDT&E Programs. Here’s what you should know.
‘Spider’s Web’ warning: The US must prioritize drone defense to avoid Russia’s fate
CNAS’s Stacie Pettyjohn and Molly Campbell argue in this op-ed that Ukraine’s clandestine operation should be a wake-up call for the US military and its own base defense.
DoD S-band needed for Golden Dome, border defense threatened by spectrum auction plans: CSIS
Selling off the low S-band “is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea,” Tom Karako, director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, told Breaking Defense today.
‘No human hands’: NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says
NGA puts a “template” on the products that “literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It’s important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the …
As Rutte formally unveils NATO 5% spending proposal, Hegseth says some allies ‘not quite there’
“We will decide, at the NATO summit, [on] the spending, and we already know we need to spend much, much more if we want to fulfill all these [capability] targets,” Rutte said on the sidelines of the defense ministerial.
‘We need your creative, innovative, patriotic, and diabolical minds’: Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine
Gen. Dan Caine called for greater collaboration between the Pentagon and industry — building on the Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit — to speed up new technology, especially for globally integrated command and control.
Pentagon chiefs eye Ukraine’s surprise drone strike with anxiety – and envy
Service leaders worry about base defense, but Gen. David Allvin also asked, “Why don’t we think about including that in our Air Force and doing like the Ukrainians do?”
More AUKUS subs, drones and munitions: UK strategic review aims for ‘warfighting readiness’
The review reportedly outlines a new way forward for British Army warfighting based around a drone-centric 20-40-40 strategy where uncrewed systems are deployed for first wave attacks before tanks, attack helicopters and other crewed platforms arrive o…
Defense cybersecurity in focus
Exclusive insights from AFCEA TechNet Baltimore including DoD strategy and key cyber updates.