The military wants artificial intelligence, which raises the question: Can the government lead or does it need to follow industry?

"When the funding will be authorized, given the shutdown and all the fun there, is a question mark," one industry source told Breaking Defense.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a long, surprisingly uncontroversial speech to industry on Friday detailing how he’d like to work with defense firms big and small going forward.

The State Department's damning critique argues that, if enacted, the draft law would imperil cooperation on "space weather, ...

"I can’t even get a response, and we’re on your team!” an exasperated Sen. Dan Sullivan told a Trump administration nominee.

The interesting part of this is it’s not just a kind of fleeting presidential idea, but this is, in fact, something that does kind of resonate with what the Navy's finding it probably needs to do with ...

Breaking Defense's Daniel Woolfolk goes inside an eerily quiet Capitol building as the shutdown drags on. At 37 days, the country is in the middle of its longest-ever government shutdown. Hallways ...

Image of a medium landing ship, from the CBO’s recent report. (CBO) MODERN DAY MARINE 2025 — The US Marine Corps’s top requirements officer said he anticipates the service’s first Landing Ship Medium ...

A Logistics Officer in the US Marine Corps Reserve. Received his training at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal for his ...

The Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) is under construction at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding/Released) ...

Attendees roam the halls of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC, Oct. 13, 2025. (Daniel Woolfolk/Breaking Defense) WASHINGTON — The government has been shut down for ...

A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific. The SM ...