Compromise spending bill reflects a $6.5 billion increase over the president’s budget request for shipbuilding—and corrects One Big Beautiful Bill accounting miscalculations.

“We need radically different ideas,” says assistant defense secretary.

Anybody need a towed sonar array? Thales has been brainstorming how to repurpose some that were designed for the U.S. Navy, but the service canceled the frigate that was supposed to tow them. It’s a situation that could befall other defense compa…

All but a handful of the 2,400-plus companies who sought approval have received it.

Defense giants were most clearly in the crosshairs of President Trump’s recent executive order on defense firms’ stock buybacks and CEO salaries—but smaller firms will be affected as well.  “There's a subtle, longer-te…

The apparently unprecedented deal raises questions of fairness, effectiveness, and conflicts of interest.

But many of the new “portfolio acquisition executives” were already leading multi-mission efforts.

The president also pushed for a $1.5-trillion defense budget.

2026 could be a big year for biomanufacturing now that it’s one of the Pentagon’s top critical technology areas.  “We import the vast majority of our chemicals. How do we bring some of that back to the U.S.? And how is that chem…