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Leidos has hired Ted Tanner to be the company's new chief technology officer, the company announced today. Beginning on Jan. 5, Tanner will succeed Jim Carlini, Leidos' CTO since 2019 who previously ...

The Dec. 11, 2025 Congressional Research Service "In Focus" report discusses the evolution of U.S. extended nuclear deterrence and regional capabilities.

Several Defense Department components are set to award MatrixSpace Inc. $500,000 for its winning low-cost sensing solution aimed at countering small drones, the Defense Innovation Unit announced ...

The Dec. 11, 2025 Congressional Research Service "In Focus" report discusses command and control of nuclear forces.

The Defense Department has told a government watchdog it cannot act on recommendations to update the test and evaluation of weapon systems until the ongoing overhaul of the acquisition ecosystem has ...

The Dec. 10, 2025 Congressional Budget Office report "finds that maintenance for Navy destroyers and amphibious warfare ships has often taken longer and required more labor than planned. Those delays ...

The Dec. 8, 2025 Government Accountability Office report finds that the Marine Corps and Air Force "had higher rates of the most serious accidents in the last 2 fiscal years (2023 and 2024) with its ...

In a Nov. 18, 2025 memo, acting Pentagon Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington lays out steps to transition defense systems to quantum-resistant cryptography, including designating a point of ...

The migration to post quantum cryptography (PQC) must not only be planned and executed with deliberate urgency to maintain warfighter lethality and information dominance in the [DOD] global ecosystem, ...

The Air Force Department has identified nearly all the portfolio acquisition executives it will propose as part of the Defense Department's new reform strategy, service Secretary Troy Meink said ...

Materiel failure of the airframe or engine components, along with human error, were to blame for the most serious V-22 Osprey accidents, according to a Government Accountability Office report released ...