DoD faces mounting pressure to pass clean audit for the first time
To date, the DoD has never passed a full, clean audit since they first became mandated in 2018.
By Ellen Ioanes
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China fires verbal warning shot at US over Taiwan
Any misstep over Taiwan could push the U.S. and China toward direct confrontation, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump.
By Tanya Noury
Analysis of US Navy-Iranian ship encounter
Defense News Executive Editor Jill Aitoro is join by a panel of foreign policy and defense experts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for analysis on the US Navy's recent encounter with an Iranian ship in the northern Persian Gulf. Guest include: Defense News Naval Warfare Report David Larter, Jerry Hendrix of the Center for New American Security, and Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Analysis of US Navy's Persian Gulf strategy
Defense News Executive Editor Jill Aitoro is join by a panel of foreign policy and defense experts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for analysis on the US Navy's recent encounter with an Iranian ship in the northern Persian Gulf. The US Navy's strategy in the Persian Gulf and how the recent incident could affect the weapon program procurement process. Guest include: Defense News Naval Warfare Report David Larter, Jerry Hendrix of the Center for New American Security, and Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
US House approves security spending bill with $1.6B for Trump border wall
The House on Thursday passed a four-bill, $789.6 billion federal spending package that sets up a showdown in the Senate over its inclusion of border wall funding and because it tops defense budget caps by $63.5 billion.
By Joe Gould
McCain tries to move NDAA, but Dems close the door
A partisan impasse in the Senate on health care has snagged the 2018 defense policy bill to the floor, despite Sen. John McCain's best efforts.
By Joe Gould
Congress' defense budgeting headed toward 'colossal crackup'
The U.S. House on Wednesday took up a defense appropriations bill that proposes tens of billion of dollars in new spending for the Pentagon. The problem is that it breaks budget caps set in law.
By Joe Gould
US Air Force chief seeks novel acquisition practices for the ‘Information Age’
The Air Force’s top general wants to network all its assets together in a massive battlefield picture.
By Valerie Insinna
Report: North Korea's missile program farther along than believed
Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable, intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a report published Tuesday amid a warning from a top Republican lawmaker who says he has grown increasingly alarmed about Pyongyang’s weapons program.
By Deb Riechmann
Japan, Germany sign deal to partner amid tensions with China
The governments of Japan and Germany have signed a defense cooperation pact that could set the stage for new arms transfers between the two nations.
Sailor error led to failed US Navy ballistic missile intercept test
A U.S. Missile Defense Agency investigation into a failed ballistic missile intercept test showed that a mistaken input into the combat system input by a sailor on the destroyer John Paul Jones caused the missile to self-destruct before reaching the target.
Navarro: Trump ordered US defense-industrial base study to help 'rebuild' military
The executive order President Trump signed Friday ordering a government-wide review of America’s defense industry aims to help fulfill Trump’s promise to “rebuild” the military, a top U.S. trade official says.
By Joe Gould