The defense industry's great hope: Unmanned systems Even as budgets stay flat or shrink, the defense industry is counting on the desire for unmanned systems.
UAVs' next challenge: Bad guys shooting back Tomorrow's unmanned strike aircraft may not have the luxury of air superiority, so commanders must learn to trust them.
F-35 test jets cleared to fly again Program officials have returned their test fleet to flight status, but two Air Force production F-35As will remain grounded...
Report: Russia sold China tech for J-20 According to a new report, Russia sold China the technology and parts that went into its much-discussed new J-20 fighter.
CNO: Navy must fix test and eval process The chief of naval operations says it's too complicated and takes too long to get a new unmanned system into the fleet.
Army goes forward with GCV development The Army has awarded contracts to two vendors to develop ground combat vehicles, but the price is already rising.
Report: Chinese TV doc reveals cyber-mischief A report says China may have inadvertently offered proof of its cyber-aggressiveness even as it tried to cast blame elsewhere...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...