Can a risk-averse procurement bureaucracy recapture the pioneering spirit of its past? The Air Force’s acquisition chief says yes.

Miitary lasers are getting more and more powerful, fast. But raw power isn’t all you need for a workable weapon.

The thing that delayed Defiant, it turns out, is the same thing that makes it really attractive to the Army.

How will the US kill enemy hypersonic weapons in future war? The Pentagon’s research chief has some high-tech ideas.

To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.

Sorry, you won’t be punching aliens in the face. But loading 200-pound missiles onto a helicopter by yourself? That’s plenty useful.

Let a hundred hypersonic flowers bloom, Pentagon officials say, instead of a single cumbersome mega-program.

The White House defense budget for 2020 falls short of commitments made and actual requirements to meet the military’s strategy, but it begins to shift priorities and start the long process of investing in long-term competition with China and Russia. Washington still lacks the budget details for another week, but here are some initial reflections… Keep reading →

Good news: That’s more money than the Army thought it could get for its top priorities. Bad news: We won’t see most of it this year.

The Pentagon has quietly asked defense contractors for ways to spot enemy missile launchers — so the US can destroy them before they even fire.