Dec 18, 2024 · Inside Defense, from the award-winning Inside the Pentagon family of newsletters, is the nation's best online news service for defense and aerospace professionals. We specialize in exclusive, hard-hitting news on Defense Department programs, procurement and policymaking.

4 days ago · Inside Defense, from the award-winning Inside the Pentagon family of newsletters, is the nation's best online news service for defense and aerospace professionals. We specialize in exclusive, hard-hitting news on Defense Department programs, procurement and policymaking.

Dec 13, 2024 · The U.S. military inched closer to fielding a new class of ultra-fast, maneuvering weapons -- a 16-year odyssey to precisely attack targets more than 2,000 miles away with a non-nuclear strike -- following a "successful" flight test over the Atlantic Ocean of the Common Hypersonic Missile.

Jan 3, 2025 · This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Air Force and Navy air-to-air missile inventories, the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital releasing its Fiscal Year 2025 Investment Strategy and more.. The recently enacted Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act calls on the Air Force and Navy secretaries to evaluate planned deliveries of individual missile types, like the AIM-120 ...

Jan 23, 2025 · This Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on the Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon program, a recently released Defense Science Board report on commercial provision of navigation signals and more.. The Army this week revealed the existence of Task Force Strategic Integrated Kinetic Effects (STRIKE) in a public notice seeking industry interest in supporting a four-year testing campaign of ...

Sep 30, 2024 · The Army awarded a $196.7 million contract to Raytheon last week for the company's Coyote interceptors, according to a Sept. 26 Pentagon notice.. Fiscal year 2024 aircraft procurement dollars were obligated at the time of the award, and the contract has a completion date of Sept. 30, 2027, according to DOD.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Army has selected BAE Systems to produce a prototype cannon that flips its offensive punch for a defensive role as part of a wider U.S. military project to shield high-value, small-area assets by defeating cruise missile raids with a paradigm-changing capability: hypervelocity projectile gunfire.

Dec 18, 2024 · The Senate voted today 85-14 to pass the final version of the fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill, sending the $895 billion piece of legislation to President Biden for his signature.. Biden is expected to sign the bill into law, making it the 64th consecutive year the legislation will be passed.. The bill, which passed the House last week 281-140, includes numerous provisions related ...

Dec 18, 2024 · China’s military budget is anywhere between 40% and 90% more than the amount publicly disclosed by the government in Beijing, according to the Defense Department's annual assessment of Chinese military capabilities.

Oct 29, 2024 · The newest version of the Abrams tank, known as the M1E3, will be the Army’s first hybrid-electric combat vehicle, leveraging lessons learned from the Ukrainian battlefield, a senior defense official said Monday.