U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Italian firm Leonardo are uniting to offer a contractor-owned, contractor-operated solution for the U.S. Army as the service embarks on an effort to revamp its flight school, the companies announced Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington.
The two aerospace leaders are going to submit an offering to the Army’s Flight School…
Anduril, GDLS team up on smarter battlefield radar
October 13, 2025
Anduril Industries is partnering with General Dynamics Land Systems to integrate its Spark Radar onto armored vehicles and other ground platforms, aiming to strengthen maneuver force protection against emerging threats such as drones and precision munitions.
The…
NATO sees Russian naval presence wane in the Mediterranean
October 13, 2025
MILAN — NATO officials have been tracking a decrease in Russia’s naval presence in the Mediterranean, which officials have attributed to readiness problems and the Baltic Sea and High North regions demanding greater attention in Moscow’s eyes.
Gone are the days when…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has formed a new “barracks task force” to improve living conditions for U.S. service members in barracks across the globe.
“For too long this Department has neglected its responsibilities to set and maintain the appropriate standards for barracks, and that ends now,” he said in a memo dated Oct. 6 and posted to his social media on Thursday.
The Barracks Task…
The U.S. Air Force plans to create independent squadrons for its future fleet of collaborative combat aircraft instead of adding the drone wingmen to already-existing squadrons of manned fighters.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the nominee to be the service’s next chief of staff…
PARIS — India agreed to buy multi-role missiles manufactured by Thales in the United Kingdom in a deal worth £350 million ($468 million), the U.K. government said on Thursday.
The deal to deliver the Lightweight Multirole Missile to the Indian Army was signed during U.K.
MILAN — Western countries scrambling to counter rising aerial threats should move beyond the simple stockpiling of countermeasures and adopt Ukraine’s faster, cheaper and battle-tested drone warfare model, experts say.
At the Warsaw Security Forum, organized in the Polish capital on Sept. 29-30, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed to his NATO partners that they build a “joint…
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday in announcing the outlines of the biggest breakthrough in months in the two-year-old…
Navy cannibalizing materiel for spare parts, watchdog says
October 9, 2025
The U.S. Navy is scavenging for spare parts from grounded materiel in order to address maintenance needs, a new government watchdog report found.
The problem arises from gaps in the Defense Department’s data rights for weapon systems that force Navy maintainers to rely on…
German arms makers lukewarm on government stakeholder push
October 9, 2025
BERLIN — Representatives of Germany’s defense enterprises have responded cautiously to a proposal for the government to become a shareholder in key companies.
German Defense Minister Borius Pistorius pushed ahead with the idea that the state might play a more active role by becoming a significant stakeholder in key military industries during an interview with the business newspaper…
