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Marines have air defense, but need a way to defeat drone swarms

“The big thing that really keeps me up at night is swarms,” Col. Andrew Konicki, head of ground-based air defense for Marine Corps Systems Command, said.

Defense budget debate devolves into fight over Hegseth’s controversies

Objections over Republican plans to boost defense spending by $150 billion focused largely on the defense secretary's leadership.

Hegseth cancels women’s leadership program despite past Trump support

The Women, Peace & Security program was signed into law by Trump and had received backing from numerous Republican leaders.

Commissary director sees opportunity for stores amid DOD upheaval

'We're going to be more like a commercial grocery chain than ever before," John Hall, director of the Defense Commissary Agency, said.

House lawmakers expected to debate defense funding boosts this week

Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of April 28, 2025.

Nationwide doorstep delivery getting closer for commissary customers

Commissary customers want and need the delivery service, officials said.

Opinion

To bootstrap US maritime industrial base, link allies and innovators

As officials consider the wholesale resuscitation of U.S. shipbuilding, there is a nearer-term lever worth pulling, the author of this op-ed argues.

Marines deploy drone-killing MADIS system for Balikatan drills

The exercise marks the first time the aerial defense system has been deployed outside the U.S. with a U.S. Marine Corps unit.

DOD stops offering rape kits to most overseas civilian workers

DOD civilian workers and contractors overseas who are ineligible for the Military Health System will no longer be provided sexual assault forensic exams.

Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools

The case involves 12 students from six families who attend military-run schools in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan.