What One Space Force General Did When We Weren’t Watching

Maj Gen Purdy and Charles Beames at the Space Mobility Conference in Orlando, FL. Space Mobility Conference Photographer While the rest of us have been distracted by the clickbait of commercial rocket...

In War With China, U.S. Risks Being ‘Beaten Over The Head’ With Its Own Explosives Technology

  Illustration by Daniel Downey for Forbes Pentagon efforts to develop new missile propellants and explosives waned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the Chinese have made big strides. By Je...

Put Up Or Shut Up Time For America’s Troubled New Aircraft Carrier

Old-school steam still works—the advantages of the USS Ford’s new electromagnetic flight deck … [+] machinery have yet to translate from PowerPoint to reality. U.S. Navy As the Pentagon’s ...

Pentagon Releases Photo Of Chinese Spy Balloon Taken From U-2 Spy Plane

A U.S. Air Force pilot looked down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over … [+] the Central Continental United States February 3, 2023. Recovery efforts began shortly a...

Key Pentagon Official In Taiwan Amid Rising U.S.-China Tensions, Report Says

Topline The U.S.’s top China defense official arrived in Taiwan for an official visit on Friday, the Financial Times reported, amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over the recent disco...

Pentagon Practiced Shooting Down Spy Balloons In Alaska Wargame Two Years Ago

The U.S. military appears to have anticipated the threat posed by Chinese balloons and has practiced tackling them for at least two years, according to Pentagon budget documents describing a classifie...

U.S. Recovers ‘Sensors And Electronics’ From China’s Balloon—Other Vessels Still A Mystery

Topline The Pentagon said Monday it has made significant headway in recovering debris from the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month—as the White House has y...

Venture Capital Joins Pentagon In Spending Big To Thwart China In Quantum-Tech War

Companies like Vector Atomic and Infleqtion are helping the military harness quantum technologies to develop underground sensing, secure communications and alternatives to GPS. By Jeremy Bogaisky Ifa ...

U.S. Shoots Down Object Over Alaska That Posed ‘Threat,’ Pentagon Says

Topline The U.S. military shot down an object moving over Alaskan air space Friday afternoon that posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” according to National Security Council s...

A Crucible For Pentagon’s New Way Of Warfighting

Both Firefighters and the Pentagon can benefit if they work together to catch forest fires early AFP via Getty Images After years of experimentation, America is edging closer to formalizing how the Pe...

Are Republicans Serious About Cutting Pentagon Spending?

The negotiations over the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House prompted howls of protest from the Washington establishment for one major reason – the fear that the budget freeze McC...

Spy Balloon Part Of Worldwide Chinese Surveillance Program Meant To Evade Radar, Report Says

Topline The suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down Saturday afternoon by U.S. fighter jets over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is part of a worldwide Chinese program to spy on military bases ...

Pentagon Warns China Has More Nuclear Missile Launchers Than U.S. But There’s One Big Catch

Maxar satellite imagery of a missile silo being constructed under inflatable domes at a training … [+] area in north-central China. Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies. DigitalGlobe/Gett...

Pentagon Admits It Failed To Spot 3 Chinese Spy Balloons During Trump’s Term

Topline The Pentagon failed to detect three suspected Chinese spy balloons as they flew over the U.S. during former President Donald Trump’s tenure, a top Defense official said Monday, two days after ...

U.S. Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over Atlantic (Updating)

Topline The suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot Saturday morning, after the Biden Administration gave the go-ahead to take it down after it floated over the Atlantic Ocean east of Myrtle Beach, Sou...

Biden Knew Earlier, Craft Possibly Seen Over North Carolina And May Be Shot Down Over Atlantic

Topline A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that shocked Americans as it drifted over Montana earlier this week was possibly spotted over North Carolina on Saturday and could be shot down as it c...

Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too

Chinese spy balloon flies above Charlotte, North Carolina on February 04, 2023. The Pentagon … [+] announced earlier that it is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon ab...

Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Hovering Over U.S., Pentagon Says

Topline A suspected Chinese spy balloon is flying over the U.S., though its current location and exact capabilities remain unclear, the Pentagon told multiple news outlets Thursday, just days before t...

What Is The Pentagon’s Updated Policy On Killer Robots?

The Pentagon has issued an update to its Directive 3000.09, which covers what they term Autonomy in Weapon Systems and others call ‘killer robots.’ Current drones like the Air Force and CIA MQ-9 Reape...

Will the Debt Limit Fight Impact Pentagon Spending?

The looming fight over increasing the debt limit raises multiple questions, from whether it will lead to a government shutdown to the potential impact on the United States’ credit rating. But those ar...

Three Essential Truths Space Force Must Never Forget

Three Essential Truths Space Force Must Never Forget ShutterStock | Pretty Vectors High level budget allocation or “top lines” are typically ordered down from the Executive Office of the President to ...

Meeting In Washington, U.S. Surface Navy Mulls Lost Mojo

The Navy must realize the 1990s are long past. Getty Images As the U.S. Navy surface warfare community convenes in Washington for the Surface Navy Association’s 35th National Symposium, Secretary of t...

Will the Freedom Caucus Tank the Pentagon Budget?

The short answer to the question posed in the title of this piece is probably not. But Speaker-elect Kevin McCarthy’s pledge to the Freedom Caucus to seek a spending freeze at 2022 levels has sent sho...

Following An Accident Earlier This Month Lockheed Martin Has Stopped F-35 Deliveries

Following a landing accident with F-35B in early December, Lockheed has stopped deliveries of the … [+] aircraft to U.S. and foreign customers. Lockheed Martin The crash landing of an F-35B near...

The Pentagon, In A Tech War With China, Is On Track To Field Its First Electric Aircraft In 2023

Air Force Maj. Jonathan Appleby (left) and Beta Technologies test pilot Camron Guthrie sit in the cockpit of Beta’s electric aircraft, Alia, during a flight test March 14 over Plattsburgh, N.Y. ...

Don’t Use the War in Ukraine As An Excuse To Permanently Expand the Weapons Industry

The United States and its NATO allies have spent tens of billions of dollars helping Ukraine defend itself from a brutal Russian invasion, and rightly so. But the Pentagon, the military services, and ...

How Inflationary Policy Decisions Result In Fewer Schools, Roads, And Fighter Jets

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks before U.S. President Joe Biden at the International Union … [+] of Operating Engineers Local 324 in Howell, Michigan. (Photo by Elaine Cromie/Getty Ima...

Pentagon Pork and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

Analyses of who won and who lost in this year’s midterm elections are well underway. For its part, the arms industry had one big win, among others: the likely ascension of Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) to t...

Embedding “Proactive Vigilance” Into The Pentagon’s High-Tech Supply Chain

The Pentagon’s struggle to ensure software security is not going to get any easier NurPhoto via Getty Images In national defense, supply chain mistakes, when found too late, can be massive and h...

Pentagon Will Pay For Military Members To Get Abortions Out Of State

Topline Members of the U.S. military who travel out of state to obtain an abortion will now have their travel fees covered by the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a memo Thursday,...

Contractor Push For Inflation Increases Could Enable Profiteering

As Senator Elizabeth Warren has noted in two recent letters to Pentagon and arms industry officials, weapons contractors are working overtime to translate concerns about inflation in the defense secto...

York Space wins $200 million Pentagon contract for T1DES satellites

The S-CLASS platform, designed for missions for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. York Space Systems Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems won a Pentagon contact worth up to ...