The Pentagon's top weapons testers lack the appropriate facilities, tools and expertise to evaluate major weapon systems against emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, hypersonics, cyber ...

Air Launched Effects program won't conduct an operational demonstration until the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026 -- two years after ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program still can't meet guidelines for developing and testing software, particularly with the long-delayed Technology Refresh 3 and Block 4 efforts, the annual ...

The Tranche 3 Tracking Layer constellation will include a minimum of 54 satellites in low-Earth orbit with missile warning/missile tracking and missile warning, tracking and defense infrared mission ...

The Army's overseas deployment last year of four Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense vehicles prevented the start of planned testing by the service's Rapid Capabilities and Critical ...

In January 2025, the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation released the fiscal year 2024 report.

In a Jan. 14, 2025 letter to the Pentagon, a group of industrial base organizations "question whether the decision to apply the disclosure requirements to commercial products is truly in the [Defense] ...

Navy leadership has tasked the service to accept recommendations of an influential advisory panel to rapidly accelerate adoption of uncrewed systems as part of the fiscal year 2027 planning cycle, ...

The Navy needs industry's help to bridge manning and capability gaps as it embarks on a multibillion-dollar effort to restore critical Indo-Pacific infrastructure that will enable operational ...

The Navy is seeking information from contractors interested in contributing to the service's remote minehunting module program, following an industry day last summer.

The RFP, published a year and a day before the amendment, Jan. 29, 2024, modified its full-rate production contract with BAE by adding “three additional option ordering years.” It originally asked for ...

A coalition of industry groups who are part of the defense industrial base are pushing back against a proposed rule establishing requirements to disclose foreign obligations for commercial products ...