The Defense Department has told a government watchdog it cannot act on recommendations to update the test and evaluation of weapon systems until the ongoing overhaul of the acquisition ecosystem has ...

The Dec. 10, 2025 Congressional Budget Office report "finds that maintenance for Navy destroyers and amphibious warfare ships has often taken longer and required more labor than planned. Those delays ...

The Dec. 8, 2025 Government Accountability Office report finds that the Marine Corps and Air Force "had higher rates of the most serious accidents in the last 2 fiscal years (2023 and 2024) with its ...

In a Nov. 18, 2025 memo, acting Pentagon Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington lays out steps to transition defense systems to quantum-resistant cryptography, including designating a point of ...

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The migration to post quantum cryptography (PQC) must not only be planned and executed with deliberate urgency to maintain warfighter lethality and information dominance in the [DOD] global ecosystem, ...

The Air Force Department has identified nearly all the portfolio acquisition executives it will propose as part of the Defense Department's new reform strategy, service Secretary Troy Meink said ...

Materiel failure of the airframe or engine components, along with human error, were to blame for the most serious V-22 Osprey accidents, according to a Government Accountability Office report released ...

The first B-52 Stratofortress with new equipment from the Radar Modernization Program has been delivered to the Air Force for testing, the service announced this week.

This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Air Force acquisition reform, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, the Army's transformation initiative and more. ORLANDO, FL -- The Air Force Department ...

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Congressional defense authorizers want the Army to kickstart a program that grows and fine-tunes robotic automation on the factory floor of munitions facilities owned by the service but managed by ...