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Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a $1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country's maritime territory against 'bullies' amid an ever-worsening dispute with China.
In its first swipe at the 2013 defense authorization bill, the House Seapower subcommittee approved a new cost cap for the US Navy's Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and rejected again a service request to decommission nine ships as an economy measure.
The US Defense Department's desire to create an unprecedented cadre of military spies is one step closer to becoming a clandestine reality.
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Oman on Tuesday aiming to help finalize an estimated US $2.1 billion deal to supply a US-made air-defense system to the Gulf nation.
For the first time, Indian defense companies have been selected for trials in a howitzer gun tender.
Canada's multibillion-dollar naval shipbuilding program is heading into stormy seas, critics say, as new questions emerge about costs and the capability of domestic shipyards.
The first portion of a major Pentagon policy bill unveiled Tuesday by a key House committee excludes any mention of a controversial East Coast missile shield proposal.
Despite continuing challenges, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière told the Bundestag he sees progress in the ongoing restructuring of the country's military.
The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military's networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Col. Charles Wells is the program manager for the Army's Distributed Common Ground System, the service's effort to integrate all streams of intelligence.
Israeli annual export sales of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) averaged US $578 million over the past eight years and should grow by up to 10 percent yearly through 2020, according to Frost & Sullivan.
About 7,000 members of the defense industry, along with hundreds of service members — and plenty of guys with long beards — packed into the Tampa Convention Center last week for the annual Special Operations Industry Conference (SOFIC).
Despite budget uncertainties, this year's ITEC seems likely to gather most of the usual military, government and academic players.
The Pentagon has asked Congress to approve $79.4 billion for combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014 .
The French defense industry — facing a global marketplace where major spenders are confronting budget uncertainty and emerging markets are swarmed by companies aggressively competing for any growth opportunity — appears to be turning to an old environment
As the U.S. military shifts its focus away from the Middle East and over to Asia, the Pacific and Africa, it faces a particular quandary: How do you give soldiers cultural awareness when they don't know which culture they will encounter?
Inside a three-story simulator in Newport, R.I., students are learning how to navigate the seas and the world of immersive ship training.
With US and European defense spending cuts clouding future prospects, contractors have been hitting the export trail in an effort to retain their order backlogs.
Each time a US government department faces major challenges, the tendency of its leaders is to launch a strategic review.
The US Navy is poised for an unmanned revolution. Last week, for the first time, it successfully catapulted an unmanned jet from an aircraft carrier.
Lost in the uproar about sequestration impacts on specific programs is that much of what's wrong with the Pentagon's finances is systemic or process related.
And so, sequestration has come. Sequestration is a reduction in funding without a reduction in programs, manpower, operational systems or infrastructure.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek greater Indian military aid during a visit this week to New Delhi, officials of both countries said Monday.
As warships get sleeker and stealthier, the head of the Italian Navy wants to buck the trend and plan a one-size-fits-all warship that will be cheap, roomy and dual use, even making space for containers on deck.
Five more coastal patrol ships are moving to Bahrain starting this summer.
Senior US Defense Department officials are expected to present three budget-cutting scenarios to the defense secretary when they wrap up a wide-ranging review of military strategy at the end of this month, according to sources.
North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions.
Israel is 'acting' to prevent Syrian weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Asia-Pacific nations are modernizing their surface and underwater naval capabilities by buying stealthy warships, attack submarines, patrol vessels, sensors, radars, missiles and unmanned systems.
A slew of politically charged scandals threatens to derail a sweeping fiscal deal with Senate Republicans that would address sequestration's defense budget cuts.
The White House is working to fill several high-level Pentagon posts as incumbents prepare to step down as the Obama administration begins a second term amid a fury of budget uncertainty.
France's defense minister on Friday defended his government's new security strategy and its mission in Mali, and called for a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war.
In some visions of the future, you'll drive your car with little more than your mind. Electrodes on your head, you can climb into your car, think about how much you'd like a Big Mac, and let the car take you automatically to the nearest McDonald's.
The acquisition of Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicle took a step closer yesterday with the Australian government announcement that it would issue a letter of request to the US for pricing and availability data.
The Indian government is evaluating the possibility of stationing troops in Afghanistan after the international forces begin leaving the country in 2014.
The US sequester is producing what many simulation companies have dreaded: falling military orders and unfortunate numbers.
France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the US Air Force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine reported Friday.
France expects the US will soon approve the speedy shipment of two Reaper surveillance drones after sending a formal request in early May, American and French sources said.
New Zealand's spending on defense is little changed from the NZ $2.9 billion (then US $2.2 billion) for 2012-2013 to NZ $2.87 billion for 2013-2014.
US senators blasted senior Pentagon legal officials Thursday for suggesting the 2001-passed measure authorizing the war on al-Qaida would justify American ground operations anywhere in the world.
Faced with a new budget reality, industry and the Pentagon are looking for ways to streamline contracting and pursue new innovations, a panel of CEOs said today.
Imagine if an individual infantryman could fire a GPS- or laser-guided mortar anywhere from 100 meters to 14 kilometers — and hit within a few meters of his target.
US Special Operations Command plans to award a contract this August for the closely watched Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 (GMV) program, as opposed to making an award this month, said USMC Lt. Col. Ken Burger, program manager for the Family of Special Operations Vehicles.
Taiwan held a military exercise Thursday in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.
The Obama administration has floated the idea of putting the CIA's controversial targeted killing operations under the control of the armed services.
A senior US State Department official on Wednesday sent mixed messages to Iran, striking hawkish and dovish tones about its nuclear weapons program.
Top Executive Confident Issues Fixable
After a year of declining attendance at defense industry conferences and a spate of canceled industry events this past spring, the jam-packed Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) here this week feels like a throwback to presequestration times.
Sig Sauer quietly showed their new PDW, a short stroke push rod, multi-caliber, integrally suppressed carbine that has yet to be named. MCX would be a likely choice for the carbine's name based on Sig's current naming convention.
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