The Jan. 20, 2026 Congressional Research Service "In Focus" report discusses the Navy's BBG (X) guided missile battleship program.

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding has successfully completed builder's sea trials for the guided missile destroyer Zumwalt (DDG-1000) following the integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike capability, ...

When directing internal dollars into new technologies, a top Air Force official says businesses eyeing the collaborative drone market should focus on placing "small bets" that can make a big ...

Congress' reliance on temporary funding measures is delaying contracts, disrupting production schedules and increasing costs across major U.S. weapons programs, according to a new Government ...

The Jan. 21, 2026 Government Accountability Office report finds that Defense Department "officials from the selected activities and programs that GAO reviewed reported facing delays, increased costs, ...

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The Navy has rescheduled an industry day for a new missile program -- the Naval Modular Missile -- for next month, after it was postponed during the government shutdown last October.

Skeptical congressional appropriators have directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to report back to them within 60 days on his efforts to slash the office of the Pentagon's independent director of ...

House and Senate appropriators are looking to give the Air Force's F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance platform an additional $505 million in research and development funds to keep the program moving ...

The nearly half-a-billion-dollar agreement from September will yield 40 more sets of the M109A7, the Army’s self-propelled, tracked howitzer system, which is accompanied by M992A3 tracked ammunition ...

As the Navy continues to replace the Lockheed Martin-made SPY-1 radar with the newer SPY-6, defense company Raytheon is looking ahead to the next contracting competition, set to begin this year. After ...

Congressional negotiators said they were unable to effectively assess how tens of billions of dollars would be spent on the Pentagon's largest modernization project in fiscal year 2026, faulting the ...