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+ Defense Breaking: Army pushes industry to share costs as GE seeks more funding for ITEP testing—NASHVILLE — The Army wants companies to burden share costs when it comes to testing and development of programs, a senior aviation leader said. ...
+ Defense Breaking: Lockheed Martin nabs $105M ground system contract to support next-gen GPS—COLORADO SPRINGS — Lockheed Martins new contract worth up to $105 million for modernizing the ground control system for Global Positioning System...
+ Defense Breaking: Fighting instructions, acquisition reform and Iran: What we expect from Sea Air Space 2026—Breaking Defense is heading to scenic National Harbor, Maryland for this years Sea Air Space conference. Naval warfare reporter Diana Stancy joins Aar...
+ Defense Breaking: Air Force secretary eyes multi-year deals for satellites, aircraft—COLORADO SPRINGS — The Department of the Air Force is seeking lawmakers’ blessing to award multi-year deals for aircraft and satellites, according to ...
+ Defense Breaking: 9 firms win orbital AMTI deals, Space Force says—WASHINGTON — The US Space Force has awarded nine firms nascent deals to build out a satellite constellation that can track aircraft from orbit, a Spac...
+ Defense Breaking: Army exploring refueling requirement for Cheyenne II MV-75: Official—NASHVILLE — The Army is weighing the possibility of creating a requirement to provide air refueling to the service’s Bell-made Cheyenne II MV-75 tiltr...
+ Defense Breaking: The history of America’s long-term efforts to plan for a war with China [BOOK EXCERPT]—The following is an excerpt from War Plan Taiwan: OPLAN 5077 and the U.S. Struggle for the Pacific, published by the Naval Institute Press. The...
+ Defense Breaking: Northrop Grumman’s Talon IQ testbed hot-swaps AI brains mid-flight—WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and three artificial intelligence firms — Shield AI, Accelint and Applied Intuition — showcased how different AIs could ...
+ Defense Breaking: Marines starting early work on sixth-gen fighter jet concepts—WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps is starting to mull concepts for a new sixth-generation fighter jet, one that will likely look like, but not necessarily...
+ Defense One: Stop managing NATO. Start rebalancing it.—The Atlantic alliance can no longer be managed through reassurance, communiqués, or the fiction that its internal tensions are political noise....
+ Defense One: Army’s HADES spy plane on track for first delivery later this year—NASHVILLE—The Army’s next-generation spy plane will begin flight tests this summer, then be delivered to the first units later this year&m...
+ Defense One: How the MV-75 Cheyenne II is pushing the service to re-think its aviation lineup—NASHVILLE—When Army leaders talk about their new tiltrotor platform, the first thing they tout are its speed, range and load capacity, all eclip...
+ Defense One: Pro-Iran hackers appear to increase critical infrastructure cyberattacks—Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure from groups sympathetic to Iran appear to be ticking up, as the federal government warns that hackers may...
+ Defense One: New test range opens for the startup-war era—A new, 400,000-acre testing and training facility aims to bring troops and defense firms together so they can innovate at the speed of modern warfare....
+ Defense One: ‘Best drone’ innovation winner developing enemy drone recovery system with the Army Research Lab—NASHVILLE—A group of soldiers from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard is teaming up with the Army Research Laboratory to develop a prototype e...
+ Defense One: Space-based missile defense may cost too much for Golden Dome’s 12-figure spending plan—Space-based interceptors may be too costly even for the massively budgeted Golden Dome missile defense system, the program’s leader said Wednesd...
+ Defense One: Hegseth orders termination of DOD union contracts—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week instructed department leaders to terminate most of the department’s collective-bargaining agreements, m...
+ Defense One: US has turned back 13 ships in blockade of Iran, Joint Chiefs chairman says—Since the United States began to blockade Iran’s ports on Tuesday, 13 ships have heeded warnings from U.S. warships to turn back, the chairman o...
+ Defense One: Russians will surrender to robots. Russian robots won’t.—NATO is studying how to use ground and air robots to replace human soldiers in assaults, something Ukraine has been doing for more than a year. ...
+ Defense One: Air Force presses for space-based radar despite AWACS loss in Iran—COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado—Air Force officials are pursuing a space-based system to detect airborne threats and pushing off additional funding f...
+ Defense One: Air Force Secretary doubles down on space-based radar bet amid key aircraft losses in Iran—COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Air Force officials are pursuing a space-based system to detect airborne threats and pushing off additional funding fo...
+ Defense One: Space Force’s 2040 vision: a larger force to contend with larger Chinese, Russian threats—COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The next 15 years will likely see potential adversaries crank up their space and counter-space capabilities, so the Sp...
+ Defense One: Defense Business Brief: Robotic arms + satellite refueling | Iran war costs | Unmasking shadow fleets…from space—It seems everyone wants to rule the cosmos—or get a spaceplane. But the more satellites militaries launch and rely on, the more they need a good...
+ Defense One: Army names its first tiltrotor aircraft: Cheyenne II—NASHVILLE—The Army is continuing to name its airframes after Indigenous tribes with its first tiltrotor aircraft. The MV-75 is officially the Ch...
+ Defense One: Airbus’ autonomous supply-helicopter effort may pave the way for an armed model—An unmanned helicopter concept being developed by Airbus for Marine Corps logistics missions may pave the way for an armed variant, company officials ...
+ Defense One: Unheeded lessons from the US warship nearly sunk by an Iranian mine—Thirty-eight years ago today, an Iranian mine tore a hole in the hull of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a guided missile frigate that had been helping to ...
+ Global Research: Trump blocca lo stretto—Il drammatico scenario mondiale viene rappresentato dal mainstream politico-mediatico come una sorta di palcoscenico su sui si muovono i principali at...
+ Global Research: The mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine: They are Killing our Children Worldwide—The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a d...
+ Global Research: “Valley of the Dolls” in the World According to Trump—The prosecution for the State vs Tyler Robinson has released a few of their bombshell evidence as gathered by Kash Patel’s FBI The post Valley of th...
+ Global Research: US-China Power Struggle: Could Benefit Peripheral Regions and Sustainability—China recently launched an investigation into the United States trade practices affecting global supply chains and the green economy. The move was a...
+ Global Research: Europe’s ‘War on Vitamins’ Returns: How European Union Restrictions Risk Deepening a Silent Public Health Crisis—Across Europe, a dangerous regulatory push is gathering pace – one that could soon strip citizens of access to meaningful amounts of the essential nut...
+ Global Research: Donald Trump Pulls the Trigger and the World Goes “Boom!”—Many Americans are coming around to the view, based on what comes out of President Donald Trump’s mouth and what he writes down on his Truth Social si...
+ Global Research: Video Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: “These Vaccines are Killing the Young and the Old, They are Killing our Children”—All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desk...
+ Global Research: Milhares de violações ucranianas foram relatadas durante a trégua da Páscoa—O regime de Kiev demonstrou mais uma vez sua natureza terrorista e sua falta de vontade de se engajar em iniciativas humanitárias. A recente trégua da...
+ Global Research: Autoridades ucranianas preocupadas com crise de mobilizações—As autoridades ucranianas já começam a expressar publicamente suas preocupações com a evasão do serviço militar entre homens em idade militar. Com a g...
+ Global Research: Selected Articles: Pathologic Russophobic United Kingdom: They Knew That NATO Expansionism Would Provoke Russia. Declassified Documents—Pathologic Russophobic United Kingdom: They Knew That NATO Expansionism Would Provoke Russia. Declassified Documents By Drago Bosnic, April 16, 2026 ...
+ Global Research: Exclusive: IRGC Locked 16 Cruise Missiles on US Warships in Strait of Hormuz Before They Retreated—In new details of last weeks operation in the Strait of Hormuz, Press TV has learned that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy locked more ...
+ Global Research: How a Check Dam Transformed Rural Livelihoods in Rajasthan—The post How a Check Dam Transformed Rural Livelihoods in Rajasthan appeared first on Global Research. [Category: English]
+ Global Research: Iran War: Sleepwalking into Starvation—According to Oxford Economics, an independent economic advisory firm, in late March the price of the two main fertilizer ingredients, ammonia and urea...
+ Global Research: Leaked Documents Reveal Details of the Secret Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Mutual Defense Pact—On Saturday, as Pakistan was in the middle of mediating hard-won ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran, Saudi Arabia made a sudden revelation that...
+ Global Research: US, Iran End 21-hour Talks Without Agreement—There is growing expectation in Tehran that the Islamabad talks with the US may open the door leading into the rose-garden. But footfalls still echo i...
+ Global Research: America is in a Recession Carved by Trump’s War Machine—According to Business Insider, the US is not facing a recession – we are effectively in one caused by economic uncertainty directly related to Trump’s...
+ Global Research: “The Srebrenica Massacre”: Analysis of the History and the Legend—[This was first published in 2010.] Introductory Statement Under pressure from the ICTY tribunal in The Hague and the European Union, Serbias Pres...
+ Global Research: Video: Syria: Washington Destroys 10,000 Years of History—Since May 20, 2025, thanks to our readers, more than 45,000 people from different parts of the world have viewed this important video interview with M...