This was supposed to be the year that the Air Force selected a winning vendor to build its next-gen fighter. Then reality set in.

Key reports covered Japan's defense expansion, China's internal troubles and Australia's uneven pursuit of more naval power.

The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.

Making a year-end list in which she forces references to Taylor Swift songs for no reason has basically become reporter Valerie Insinna's favorite Christmas tradition.

WASHINGTON — The Army is cleared to proceed building out its new spy plane with the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), after the government watchdog agency denied L3Harris’s contract protest.

JERUSALEM — Slovakia has agreed to pay €560 million ($583 million) for the Israeli-made Barak MX air defense system, in a deal the Israeli Ministry of Defense hailed as the largest ever ...

WASHINGTON — Over the past year, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman has issued a series of internal “Commander’s Notes” that have sought to create the culture and operational ...

BEIRUT — This year it was nearly impossible to choose just five stories from our coverage of the Middle East in 2024, a year of brutal wars, seismic shifts in power and, for now, at least some ...

WASHINGTON — In 2024, the US Navy’s frustrations with its industrial base were on public display. Whether those frustrations were justified depends on who you ask. I’ve been watching the US ...

WASHINGTON — This year saw major progress in the Pentagon’s years-long push to harness artificial intelligence — not for drones or “killer robots,” but for software tools that help staff ...