An analysis by AEI conducted in partnership with Breaking Defense scoured thousands of pages of fiscal 2026 Pentagon budget documents, some of the most definitive accounting yet for DOGE’s impact at the Department of Defense.
“The Marine Corps wanted basically anything that could be a modular payload on a robot. They wanted a laundry list of capabilities...," said GS Engineering's Traci Webb.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
“It’s pretty common to pass within five or 10 miles of a tanker — in the middle of ocean, there’s really not much traffic going on,” said CEO Mike Flanigan. But “for 20 minutes, we basically were shadowed by a Chinese destroyer very closely.”
The Navy invited reporters to Norfolk, Va., to witness parts of Large Scale Exercise 2025, the third iteration of its global training event.
The carrier-capable F-35C crashed near Naval Air Station Lemoore in central California Wednesday evening, according to a US Navy spokesperson.
The T-45 is facing “significant aircraft, engine, and component obsolescence issues. These issues are projected to dramatically increase operating costs and aircraft availability by 2030,” according to Navy budget documents.
L3Harris has spent 10 years designing and developing the munitions and completed more than 40 test flights to date, with additional flights planned for this year.
The Navy's Unfunded Priorities List, obtained by Breaking Defense, seeks roughly $1.4 billion in funding to award a contract to industry for the F/A-XX program.
2025 will be the third iteration of what the US Navy has dubbed its Large Scale Exercise.
“By forcing a missionization really quickly before you get to that 100 percent product ... we're getting a lot of really good interaction,” DARPA Program Manager Phillip Smith told Breaking Defense in an interview.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., criticized a dip of billions in the base budget, saying the administration was counting on reconciliation funds, ignoring "congressional intent."
The talk of a block buy will be welcome news to the industrial base, which has been lobbying the Pentagon for years to repeat the strategy it used for the third and fourth carriers in the class.
“We’ve embraced the DOGE agency to come in basically to help us figure out processes and things that we’re doing that don’t make sense,” Navy Secretary John Phelan said.
In this op-ed, Maj. Corey Jeske argues that the lack of investment in small boats is a liability for the Marine Corps in the Indo-Pacific.